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EDITORIAL

BRYAN LIFE replaces both the BRYAN
NEWSETTE (1935-75) and the BRYAN BLUE-
PRINT U 967-75) and will be issued quarterly. This
change is one of several growing out of an evaluation
with outside consultants of the total administrative
program over the past three years. The plan is to
combine the NEWSETTE and BLUEPRINT into one
new magazine and to conserve the essential charac-
teristics of the former publications but in a new
format with an expanded purpose and an indivi-
duality all its own.

The NEWSETTE has had an honorable history of
forty years, the archives reveaUng that the first issue
came out in July, 1935. It was devoted primarily to
news of the Bryan community in the detail which
would be of interest to those with a close connection
with the college. The BL UEPRINT was inaugurated
to provide a service ministry dealing with ideas and
current issues, including those of special interest to
the evangelical community. This publication was di-
rected to a more Umited mailing list of business and
professional people, alumni donors, and other friends
who had indicated an interest in receiving that kind
of publication. We bid farewell to these old friends
and say that we expect to combine the strengths of
the old in the new with an added dimension. The
BR YANETTE, devoted to alumni news and the
affairs of the alumni association, will continue.

Choosing a name was not easy. A contest was held
in the college community offering a prize of S50 to
the person submitting the winning title. Numerous
names were suggested, with one avid contestant sub-
mitting seventeen entries! BR YAN LIFE was chosen
from among three or four judged to be final suitable
possibilities. It was submitted by Russell L. Bailey, of
Endicott, N.Y., a member of the 1975 graduating
class. Russell and Marian were choice members of our
community for his senior year, Russell transferring
from a community college and a Bible school.

We are interested in your reactions to BR YAN
LIFE, especially to the content. Suggestions as to
how the new publication can best serve the interests
of the college and the constituency will be welcome.
We plan to include articles by and about trustees,
alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends of the
college. We are using the services of an outside editor
for layout and production. The printing will be done
outside the area and mailing procedures wiU conform
to the fact that our mailing list is now on computer.
Let us hear from you.

Theodore C. Mercer
President

BRYAN LIFE

Volume 1

Fall 1975

Number 1

Dr. Theodore C. Mercer, Executive Editor

Robert C. HUl. Editor

John Weyant, Managing Editor
Shirley Holmes, Circulation Manager.

Consulting Editors: Dr. John Bartlett, Larry Levenger,
Rebecca Peck and Charles Robinson. Editorial Office,
William Jennings Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee 37321.
Publishing Office, Cross Roads Publications, Inc., 2110
Silver Hill Road, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083,
404/939-6507.

CONTENTS

CAMPUS REVIEW: A bird's-eye view of upcoming 3

sports, campus activities, faculty happenings and
news of interest.

ECHOES FROM MAIN STREET - 1925: After 50 4
years people throughout the nation still talk and
debate the famous Scopes trial that took place in
Dayton, Tennessee, the home of Br>'an College. By
Charles Robinson.

VICTORY IN CATASTROPHE: Historians vdU 8
probably mention httle about the failure of the Viet-
nam War. But there are many apparent victories as
described by a veteran Christian missionar\'. By Dr.
Ernest W. Lee

CHRIST ABOVE ALL: Behind the motto of Br\an 12
College there is an underlying concept which spells
out the reason for the existence of Bryan College. By
Dr. Theodore C. Mercer.

MORE THAN A MEMORIAL: A monument to a 14
great leader is now being constructed. But it will be
more than a brick and mortar memorial in the years
to come. By Dr. John Bartlett

Cover personalities: Bryan student Paula Purser and Paula
Argo symbolize the "Big Brother'Big Sister" campus pro-
gram for children of the community. Cover photos by
Cunnyngham Photography. Dayton. Tennessee.

BRYAN LIFE is published four times annually for WiUiam
Jennings Br>'an College. Dayton, Tennessee, by Cross Roads
Publications. Second class postage paid at Dayton,
Tennessee.

Wmiam Jennings Bryan CoUege

Dayton, Tennessee

BRYAN LIFE

ampus Reviei^v

ANITA BRYANT SINGERS
SCHEDULED AT BRYAN

Student Union is excited
about tlie activities in store
for this year, which include
several musical groups, as
The Anita Bryant Singers, Pat
C Terry, The Renaissance, Jack
Q^; Ross and others. President
Gary Franklin, Junior, West-
land, Mich., promises
"originality and hard work
from our student leaders to
provide enjoyment for all our
students."

The Bryan College Stu-
dent Union is an organization
of eighteen students represent-
ing a cross-section of our col-
lege community. The stated
purpose is "to provide stu-
dent-oriented activities and
promote a cultural, social,
and recreational program
which shall aim to make free-
time activity a supportive
factor in education."

A well-quaUfied group of
officers will work with Mr.
Franklin this year in Student
Union. They include: Vice
President of Activities,
Roddy Miller, senior, Colum-
bia, S.C. Vice Piesident of
Personnel, Gary Criswell,
senior, Richmond, Va. Secre-
tary, Carol Kincaid, junior,
Lynchburg, Va. Treasurer,
Tim Staples, sophomore,
Waxhaw, N.C. Publicity
Manager, Beth Davies, junior,
Jackson, Miss.

COLLEGE ENROLLMENT
REPORTS INCREASE

Enrollment at Bryan Col-
lege in regular credit courses
for the first semester reached
619 by early September, an
increase of 55 or 9.8% over a
year ago. Of this total enroll-
ment, 585 are full-time stu-
dents compared with 535 a
year ago, an increase of 50 or
9.3%. Dormitory enrollment

rose from 436 last fall to 497,
a 14% increase. The full-time
equivalent (full time plus
part-time equated to full
time) is 597 compared to 546
a year ago, for a basic net in-
crease of 9%. These enroll-
ment statistics do not include
registration in continuing
education.

SOCCER LETTERMEN
RETURN

"The Lions will thrive in
'75" is the motto of this
year's soccer team at Bryan.
Coach John Reeser expects
16 returning lettermen, in-
cluding 1 starters, plus 2
transfers and 1 freshmen.

"Seven seniors have com-
piled a record of 25 wins, 16
losses, and 3 ties during their
career," states Coach Reeser.

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"Last year's team broke or
tied 18 team and individual
records with a 15-2-1
record," Coach Reeser added.

CROSS COUNTRY TEAM
DEFENDS RECORD

With record-setting Tom
Potter leading the way, Bryan
College's cross-country team
should be hard to beat in
1975. "The Lions have a
difficult schedule, but they
also have the runners to do
the job," Jeff Tubbs,
manager, said.

In addition to Potter, who
set seven different course
records last fall, four other

lettermen return to give the
Lions a great deal of depth.
Chris Hatten, Mike Wood,
Tom Lane and Wayne Scott
are the men, along with
Potter, Coach Matthes is
counting on to provide
leadership for this year's
squad.

Bryan will be out to
defend its SCAC champion-
ship and try for another un-
defeated regular season in the
league. The harriers will also
be running in the Fisk Invita-
tional (1st place in 1974) and
attending the NCCAA
national meet (4th place in
1974).

With a bumper crop of
new runners expected to join
the veterans and the coaching
experience of Mr. Jake
Matthes, Bryan's cross-
country fans can't help
smiling when they think
about the upcoming season.

FINANCIAL YEAR ENDS
IN THE BLACK

The good news in finances
this past year was the ending
of the fiscal year on June 30
in the black in the operating
(current) fund. Total gifts
and grants to the college for
the year, not including col-

continued on page '

FALL 1975

^choesr

Srom Main Street

Famed criminal lawyer Qarence Darrow, left, counsel for the defense, and William Jennings
raie photograph of them together during the heat of the Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee, July

Aoward the closing hours of the
now-famous Scopes evolution trial in
Dayton, Tennessee, in a sultry July,
1925, William Jennings Bryan
prepared an address summarizing his
case for the prosecution and
answering the final arguments of the
defense attorney and acknowledged
agnostic, Clarence Darrow. Mr. Bryan
never got the opportunity to deliver
his last speech because the trial ended
rather abruptly with the conviction of
John T. Scopes. In his speech, which
the college has reprinted as part of its
observance of the fiftieth anniversary
of the trial, Mr. Bryan wrote, in part:
"Let me, in the first place, congratu-
late our cause that circumstances have
committed the trial to a community
like this and entrusted the decision to
a jury made up largely of the yeo-
manry of the state."

What were those circumstances
which "committed the trial to a com-
munity like" Dayton? How did it
come about that the trial was held in
obscure Dayton, Tennessee, and not

elsewhere. Were there not better-
known and more populous towns
which could have been chosen as the
scene of the trial? Why not some great
American metropolis with an institu-
tion of higher learning in its midst,
rather than, as Bryan described the
area, "the calm serenity of the
country"? The ST. LOUIS POST-DIS-
PA TCH at the time asked-.

"Why Dayton - of all Places?"

The answer to this and other
questions surfaced during the annual
Founders Week observance at Bryan
College, March 17-22. The dates
spanned the birthday of Mr. Bryan on
March 19. Three distinguished scholars
each dealt with a different aspect of
Mr. Bryan's brilliant and multifaceted
career.

Dr. Willard Smith, professor
emeritus of history, Goshen (Tnd.)
College, spoke on "William Jennings
Bryan at Dayton: A View Fifty Years
Later"; Dr. Edwin Hollatz, professor

Bryan, counsel for the prosecution, pause for this
,1925.

of speech and communication at
Wheaton (111.) College, presented
William Jennings Bryan as orator and
Chautauqua speaker; and Dr. Warren
AUem, Bryan alumnus of Egg Harbor
City, N. J., lectured on the Scopes
Trial, using the research he did in
writing his thesis for a master's degree
in history.

Both Dr. Smith and Dr. Allem
agreed that it was by design rather
than by accident that Dayton became
the scene of the most widely covered |
court case in American history.

Dayton had once been a prosperous
town, which in 1925 was suffering
from an economic slump. The
mountain behind Dayton, according to
Dr. Allem, was rich in coal and iron
ore. Several iron furnaces were started,
but it was later discovered that the ore
was of poor quality, not suitable for
commercial use. About 1912 the
contract ran out, and with the coming
of World War I further efforts to pro-
duce iron either from the Dayton mine
or from ore barged down the
Tennessee River had to be abandoned.

BRYAN LIFE

by Charles Robinson

Enterprising local citizens tried
vainly to promote industry by intro-
ducing cotton gins, and local farmers
were induced to try raising cotton, but
the land was not suited to the growing
of cotton. Other ventures were begun,
but these, too, proved futile.

^% round 1925 many folk in Dayton
were thinking about what might be
done to get the town out of its slump.
How could attention be focused upon
Dayton?

There was a man in Dayton by the
name of George Rappleyea, who had
come from New York by way of
Chattanooga. He worked as an agent
to help dispose of real estate belonging
to the now defunct Cumberland Coal
and Iron Company. He read in the
newspaper that the American Civil
Liberties Union was trying to get a test
case to challenge the constitutionality
of the Tennessee statute which made it
unlawful for a teacher in the public
schools of the state "to teach any
theory that denies the story of the
Divine Creation of man as taught in
the Bible, and to teach instead that
man has descended from a lower order
of animals." Mr. Rappleyea suggested
to Mr. Earl Robinson, operator of the
local drug store, and to the Hicks
brothers, attorneys, that if a trial of
this kind could be held in Dayton the
eyes of the nation would be turned
upon the hapless town. John T.
Scopes, a young math teacher and
coach, was teaching a course in high
school biology that year. He was
sought out, and, at a meeting in
Robinson's Drug Store, he agreed to
become the culprit in the case by
deliberately violating the contested
statute.

Their well-laid plans were almost
wrecked when certain interests in the
city of Chattanooga decided they
wanted the trial there for much the
same reason for which the Dayton
leaders sought it. The Chattanooga
folk sought to bring about a change of
venue, so that the Scopes trial could
be held there. When this failed, an
attempt was made to get a Chatta-
nooga teacher to stand trial.

Bill Morgan, head of the Dayton
Progressive Club, realizing that some-
thing had to be done, arranged for
George Rappleyea to make a talk on
evolution. A fight was staged which
broke up the meeting. This was widely
publicized and succeeded in bringing
the attention of the press back to
Dayton, and away from Chattanooga.

And so it came to pass that the
Scopes trial was held in Dayton,
Tennessee.

Looking Back from 1975
1. Some problems and weaknesses

Dr. Willard Smith maintained that
Mr. Bryan made a mistake in accepting
the invitation to come to Dayton in
the first place. He probably hastened
his death by so doing. Dr. AUem adds
that Mr. Bryan had previously said
that he would come to Dayton if the
prosecution invited him. Clarence
Darrow had also expressed his willing-
ness to come. Those who wanted to
put Dayton on the map could hardly
resist the opportunity to bring these
two nationally known figures together
in Dayton.

The speakers also agreed that the
journalistic crowd had pre-determined
which side it was going to champion.
About two hundred reporters con-
verged on Dayton to cover the trial.
Almost to a man they were anti-Bryan
and pro-Darrow. Together they gave
Bryan a bad press. Particular harm was
done by H. L. Mencken, then editor of
the BALTIMORE EVENING SUN. He
was a forceful and vivid writer and had
much responsibility for the erroneous
view about Mr. Bryan, which has
persisted to the present day.

A good deal of the genera! public
impression of Mr. Bryan and of
Dayton derives from the stage play,
"Inherit the Wind," which was later
made into a movie and premiered in
Dayton in 1960. Although the authors
of the play are careful to state in the
prologue that their work is not
history, that "only a handful of
phrases have been taken from the
actual transcript of the famous trial"
and that the play "does not pretend to

be journahsm" but "theater," still the
historical interest evoked by the pre-
sentation causes most people to think
of it as history.

Dr. Smith contends that Bryan,
having come to Dayton to participate
m the prosecution of John T.
Scopes, should have stuck with the
original issue: did Scopes violate the
law? No one doubted that the law had
been violated; and when the court got
around to dealing with the original
charge, the conviction of Scopes was a
foregone conclusion. Mr. Bryan should
not have gone on the witness stand
and allowed himself to be cross-
examined by Clarence Darrow; how-
ever, he agreed because he did not
want to appear in the public eye to be
running away from Darrow's withering
questions. He saw himself in the role
of defender of the faith, and this was
one way to defend it. He did so, how-
ever, with the understanding that he
would be able in turn to interrogate
Darrow; but he was never given that
opportunity.

,__^ 2. Some strengths

iE^ryan himself saw the issue as the
right of the people to control their
own schools through their elected
representatives in the legislature. He
asserted at the close of his last mes-
sage:

"It is for the jury to determine
whether this attack upon the Christian
religion shall be permitted in the pub-
lic schools of Tennessee by teachers
employed by the state and paid out of
the public treasury. This case is no
longer local, the defendant ceases to
play an important part. The case has
assumed the proportions of a battle-
royal between unbelief that attempts
to speak through so-called science and
the defenders of the Christian faith,
speaking through the legislators of
Tennessee. It is again a choice between
God and Baal; it is also a renewal of
the issue in Pilate's court. In that his-
toric trial - the greatest in history -
force, impersonated by Pilate,
occupied the throne. Behind it was the
Roman government, mistress of the
world, and behind the Roman govern-

L 1975

merit, the legions of Rome. Before
Pilate stood Christ, the Apostle of
Love. Force triumphed; they nailed
Him to the tree and those who stood
around mocked and jeered and said,
'He is dead.' But from that day the
power of Caesar waned and the power
of Christ increased. In a few centuries
the Roman government was gone and
its legions forgotten; while the cruci-
fied Lord has become the greatest fact
in history and the growing Figure of
all time."

Looking back now after fifty years,
one can see clearly that Mr. Bryan was
not the bitter old man, nor yet the
bumbling bigot, which Darrow and the
press represented him to be. His fore-
sight and progressiveness are evident in
that many of the reforms he advocated
have become reality. Among these
were the direct election of U. S.
senators, the graduated federal income
tax, and many others.

Mr. Bryan was an evangehcal Chris-
tian with a strong sense of social jus-
tice. He kept clear the connection be-
tween regeneration and the improve-
ment of society. A great optimist, he
was a strong believer in the power of
the Gospel. A conservative in religion,
he was progressive in politics, econo-
mics, and in social reform. When asked
how he could be a conservative in
theology and a progressive in politics,
Bryan replied: "Government is man-
made, and therefore, imperfect. If
Christ is the final Word, how can any-
one be progressive in religion? I am
satisfied with the God we have, with
the Bible, and with Christ."

From the vantage point of today,
the Scopes trial can be viewed as an
attack upon the integrity of the Scrip-
tures. If the Bible account of creation
can be exploded as a Babylonian
myth, if the Bible is not trustworthy
on this basic issue, can it be relied
upon as trustworthy on any issue?
Either the Bible is the inerrant Word
of God, or it is not. William Jennings
Bryan at Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925
took the position that "holy men of
God spake as they were moved by the
Holy Ghost" (2 Pt. 1:21) and that "all
Scripture is given by inspiration ot
God and is profitable ..." (2 Tim.
3:16). Having taken that position, he
defended it to the death.

Today the college founded in his
honor and bearing his name carries on
in the same evangelical tradition and in
the admonition of the Apostle Paul to
"be strong in the grace that is in Christ
Jesus. And the things which thou hast
heard among many witnesses, the same
commit thou to faithful men [and
women] , who shall be able to teach
others also." (2 Tim. 2:1,2). BL

»«

Why Defend

Divine

Creation?

by Dave Lle^wellyn

David Llewellyn ('66) is a law student at the Uni-
versity of California at Los Angeles, a former col-
lege English teacher and a writer of a syndicated
column carrying a Christian emphasis.

▼▼hen Clarence Darrow's famed
courtroom finesse outmaneuvered
William Jennings Bryan at the
"Monkey Trial" in 1925, many people
supposed that the debate between the
Creationists and the Evolutionists was
finally settled in favor of Darwin over
the Bible. Yet now, 50 years later,
newspapers report serious discussion
taking place in several states, including
California and Georgia, concerning the
possible adoption of pubhc school .
textbooks which include creation as a
credible theory of the genesis of the
world.

Why do the Creationists bother? Is
it that they just can't stand losing? Or
in this argument, which has now been
continuing for over 100 years, is there
something spiritually significant at
stake?

Christians who believe the Bible is
accurate in every respect, scientifically
and historically, as well as spiritually—
and 1 am one of them— recognize vast
significance in the doctrine of
creation as recorded in the Bible.

The creation account in Genesis,
for example, not only explains the
origin of the universe but also reveals
the nature, authority, and purposes of
God and of Man. The first chapters ex-
plain that God chose to create the
world because He wanted it to exist
and that He thought His creation, in-
cluding mankind, was "very good."
What a different self-concept we have
when we realize that God likes people!
He loves us individually! Rather than

being a meaningless accident of nature,
we were purposefully designed and
given responsibility over the world.

God's authority, furthermore,
absolutely controls all nature. Both
energy and matter were created by
God's commands from "nothing," that
is, from spiritual resources. Another
passage explains that the material
world was not created out of visible
substances. If the superiority of
spiritual forces over physical ones were
not known, it would be ludicrous for
anyone to prefer to depend on faith
and spiritual truths, rather than on his
personal abiUties or financial security.
Evolutionists understandably do
ridicule supernaturalism.

^^nd there is a point to the' world.
Unhke evolution, which necessarily
emphasizes the similarities between
Man and the animals, the Biblical ac-
count of creation stresses the image
and likeness of God in us. Under God,
we have been given the responsibility
to control and manage the world, and
more importantly we have been
created with an inborn capacity to
know God personally.

The reality of a loving God within
personal contact with every man is
inimical to nearly every evolutionary
theory. Christians do not care about
abstract theories, but they do care
very much about God and about peo-
ple. That's why the credibility of the
Creation theory is a concept worth
contending for. BL

BRYAN LIFE

Campus Revie'w

Continued

lege work-study, were
544 8,000. By major cate-
gories these gifts were desig-
nated as follows: SI 84.000
operating fund: S 141.000 en-
dowment fund: and SI 23.000
plant gifts for Rudd Chapel.

BRY.4N WELCOMES
NE\V F.A.CULTY MEMBERS

Bry^an welcomed four new
faculty members as the
forty-sLxth year of the school
began. These were introduced
at the faculty -staff spiritual
retreat at the Harrj" Johnson
cabin on the shores of Watts
Bar Lake August 25 and 26
and again at the BWA picnic
on the triangle .\ugust 28.

Dr. Paul J. Biggers,
associate professor of educa-
tion, comes from DeKalb
Community' CoUege, Decatur,
Georgia, where he was pro-
fessor of political science. He
formerh' taught at Florida
State UniversitV', where he
earned his Ph.D. in education.

Mr. Martin E. HartzeU.
assistant professor of biology",
has been a teaching assistant
in zoolog>^ and a research
associate at Indiana Univer-
sity', where he pursued studies
on his doctoral program.

Mr. W. Gar>- Phillips, in-
structor in Bible and Greek, is
a 1975 graduate of Dallas
Theological Seminary. He wiU j
assume some of the teaching
load of Dr. John Anderson,
who is on a partial sabbatical
leave this year.

Mr. Bryan Shelley, in-
structor in English, is a 1971
graduate of Br^an. He returns
to his alma mater after earn-
ing his M.A. in English in
1973 from Appalachian State
University. Boone. North
Carohna. He was employed
for nearly two years as sports
editor of the Laurens County
I S.C. I AJrertiser.

FACULTY BRIEFS

Many of Bryan's faculty
members were busily engaged
in various academic pursuits
during the summer.

Dr. John B. Bartlett. vice
president and academic dean,
led his tenth tour to Europe
June 16 — July 8, visiting
Scotland, England, Belgium,
Holland, Austria, Switzer-
land, and France. He was ac-
companied by, among others,
Mrs. Ruth Bartlett. assistant

The Bartletts
professor of music; Miss
Zelpha Russell, director of
admissions; Mrs. Rebecca Van
Meeveren, assistant director
of Ubrary services; and Mr.
Ben Purser, a local trustee of
Bryan.

Dr. Bartlett also attended
the Academic Commission of
the Council for the Advance-
ment of Small Colleges,
where he was one of three
college deans who served in
an advisor^' capacity for the
CASC annual summer work-
shop August 4-8 at Lake
Forest fill.) College. The
theme of the workshop was
administrative development.

Dr. Ralph B. Paisley,
associate professor of
biology-, attended the first In-
ternational Conference on
Human Engineering and the
Future of Man at Wheaton
College.

Dr. J. James Greasby.
chairman of fine arts division,
attended the 15-day annual
Robert Shaw workshop in
Princeton, New Jersey. The
workshop was devoted to the
intensive study and inter-
pretation of two choral
works, one by Bach and one
by Beethoven.

Mr. WiUiam Kefchersid,
associate professor at Bryan,
participated in an advance in-
service faculty development
program. He was one of
forty-five professors taking
part and was invited by the
Council for the Advancement
of Small Colleges. The
program was funded by the
Kellogg Foundation.
Ketchersid is also head of the
department of histor\- and
social science, chairman of
the division, and. former
chairman of the faculty
development council.

Mr. William Boyd,
assistant professor of music at
Bryan, returned to his
teaching responsibilities after
a year's sabbatical leave. He
pursued studies on his doc-
toral program at Louisiana
State Universit>^

Dr. Merlin Grieser,
assistant professor of chemis-
try, was accepted into a
summer program for science
and engineering faculty by
the Special Training Division
of Oak Ridge .A.ssociated Uni-
versities at Oak Ridge.
Tennessee.

Mr. Don HiU. assistant
professor of education, took
an accelerated summer course
at Union Graduate School,
Portland, Maine, a con-
sortium of experimenting
colleges and universities. The
program was one for innova-
tion in elementary and secon-
darv education.

FALL 1975

fictory

in Catastrophe

Behold the vahant ones cry
without;

the envoys of peace weep

bitterly.
The highways lie waste,

the wayfaring man ceases.
Covenants are broken,

witnesses are despised,

there is no regard for man.
The land mourns and languishes.

oes this sound like Vietnam and
Cambodia? Isaiah (33:7-9a) penned
this passage some 2'/2 millennia ago,
but the description very appropriately
describes the Vietnam and Cambodia
we have known for the past several
years.

Who can deny the tragedy of the
war in Cambodia and Vietnam? Cer-
tainly after ten years in Vietnam as a
missionary, I cannot. Generals have
wept over Vietnam; Kissinger and
others are discouraged because their
attempts at peace have failed. Travel
has been restricted for years because
the highways are unsafe and trains
can not run; covenants have been
broken; there has been no regard for
man; and the land still mourns and lan-
guishes as literally millions of the pop-
ulace have been displaced by the war.
Many American men gave their hves
for Vietnam and a far greater numbej
of Vietnamese gave their lives; to these
we may add Australian and Korean
soldiers, and missionaries and Bible
translators.

Isaiah does not quit with such a dis-
couraging note but continues in
33:10; "Now, I will arise," says the
Lord, "now I will lift myself up, now I_
wIIT be exalted ....""THaFGod has done
this in Vietnam is clearly evident if we
review some of the things He has done
during these past few years.

When we arrived in Vietnam in
January 1959, there was only one New

Liong, a Roglai, is teaching the second lesson of the Roglai primer.

Testament in print in a montagnard
(Mountain people) language and be-
lievers in only a few of the tribes. To-'
day there are six New Testament trans-
lations either in print or ready for pub-
lication. Three have been done by the
Christian and Missionary Alliance and
three by Wycliffe Bible Translators.
There are now believers in at least 27
of the montagnard language groups.

Militarily and pohtically both Viet-
nam and Cambodia are a catastrophe,
but the Holy Spirit is not bound by
armies and governments. The church
has been scattered, but remember the
early church grew when it was scat-
tered; and I believe God will do the
same for the church He has been build-
ing in Vietnam and Cambodia.

In recent years the number of
Christian congregations has increased
from 2 to at least 1 7 in Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, and in 1972 a revival began
in the churches of Vietnam with re-
sults that spread from the ethnic
Vietnamese to the montagnards.

Just this past January, according to
reports, 4000 Rade tribesmen had
found a new faith in Jesus Christ
during a three-week series of meetings.
And this was in the area of

Banmethuot, the city which fell first
when it was besieged by North
Vietnamese Army on March 10.

The montagnards of Vietnam are
traditionally animistic— seeking to ap-
pease the spirits who inhabit the
mountains, rivers, fields, etc. During
the war many of them were uprooted
and became refugees in areas where
they did not know the spirits and
were, as a result, responsive, to the
gospel message.

virtual people's movement
among the Haroi is described in the
Wycliffe prayer bulletin (August
1973): "When Pong ... helped translate
Luke's account of Jesus healing lepers,
his heart was touched as he too needed
physical healing. That day in 1971 ...
Pong asked Jesus to save him from his
sins. As Pong learned more in transla-
tion sessions from the Haroi team he
began teUing others. Soon there were
four believers spreading the Good
News to friends and relatives. In recent
months over 300 new behevers have
been added to the Haroi church. One
of them is a former witch doctor who
is now refusing clients even when they
threaten him at gunpoint !"

BRYAN LIFE

By Ernest Lee

Some teachers are preparing visual aids for teaching the tribal children to read.

A 1974 report estimated 90% of
the Jeh tribe to be Christian, but at
that time they were almost entirely be-
hind the lines or scattered. Of the
Stieng tribe another example of the
moving of the Holy Spirit is indicated:
"Over 10,000 Stieng refugees from An
Loc are living in a large refugee center
of tents and barracks a few miles from
Saigon. Hret, the dedicated young
Stieng evangelist who was so wonder-
fully spared during the siege of An Loc
last year [1972], and C&MA
missionaries have been greatly used of
the Lord in leading hundreds of these
refugees to the Lord." (Wycliffe
prayer bulletin, January 1973)

Not ever>' tribe has exp;rienced
movements of this kind, but the
potential for such a movement still
exists. For example, from tlie large
Nung tribe of North Vietnam who are
represented by only a small group of
refugees in the South, there were for
several years only two women be-
lievers. For years Jan Saul and Nancy
Freiberger WDson (Bryan College
alumna) had requested prayer for the
Nung patriarch who had been so kind
to them, but who was enslaved as a

priest of witchcraft. Finally, three
months before his death in 1974, he
put his faith in Christ and was a
faithful witness to the end. Can we
trust God to work among the Nung
through the testimony borne and the
portions of the Word left with these
people?

Speaking of the Word, we have
already seen what has happened when
Pong, the Haroi translation helper,
became a Christian. Let's see what the
Lord did for the Chrau tribe.

A Chrau boy named Cam came to
Dave and Dot Thomas's house to join
the reading class. He was the top stu-
dent, and eventually became a believer
in Christ.

hen they needed a ' language
helper, the Thomases sought Cam (by
then a teenager) to work for them.
About to join the army, he realized
their request to be God's direction for
him. That was 1968, and Cam has
been a part of the Chrau translation
team ever since.

He tutored Dave and Dot in
speaking Chrau, while Dave coached
him in the 3 R's. They worked

together on dictionaries, language
analysis, literacy materials, cultural
studies and translation of God's Word.
Gifted and keen to learn, Cam grew
rapidly in knowledge. Dot now
estimates his language work to be
college level, though he never finished
grade school. He attended Bible school
two years.

As he helped the Thomases check
their translation of various Bible books
in Chrau, Cam picked up the princi-
ples. Soon he was translating too. He
did the first draft of Matthew and
Luke. WhUe Dave and Dot were on
furlough. Cam did not quit. He trans-
lated Revelation, then attended the
SIL Translation Workshop, where
consultants checked his work.

These past few years miracle upon
miracle has been witnessed as the Lord
has provided translation helpers from
languages which were not otherwise
accessible at the time, sometimes a pri-
soner, sometimes one sick or wounded
in a hospital. The translation of the
Word into these tribal languages, al-
though not as fast as we would have
liked, has moved steadily onward.

Nancy Costello, a translator from
Australia for the Katu tribe, wrote:

"My new Katu helper, Sre, is a
High Katu from the Laotian border
west of Danang, about 28 years of age.
She is a widow who was shot in a
battle between a U.S. Patrol and VC
soldiers and who was taken to a U.S.
hospital in Danang. She says that she
knew the U.S. nurses loved her and
were trying to heal her even though
they had strange tubes and needles in
her body. She says she knew they were
curing her by returning blood to her.

"She is keen to learn to read and
studies constantly. She wanted to
learn to read in her village, but her
husband wouldn't let her.,.. She had
never heard the Gospel until she went
to Thuong Due [the village where
Nancy has worked]. She thought it
was the best news she had ever heard
and went to every Katu and
Vietnamese service, though she can't

FALL 1975

understand much Vietnamese. She
told me with great amazement of one
Katu lady who went to sleep in
church. 'I don't know how she can
sleep! I want to hear every word!' I
read some of God's Word to her every
day, but she is even more eager to
learn to read now so that she can read
it for herself. I talked to her about
accepting the Lord, and she was eager
to do so in prayer. Praise the Lord for
this. Many have prayed for years for
the hearts of the High Katu to be
prepared, and she is an example of the
preparation God is doing ...!"

This woman is just one of many
who have learned to read in order to
search the Scriptures for themselves.
You may have already heard the story
of Ama Panon, the Roglai
septuagenarian, who had been a
Christian for more than twenty years
before he had a real opportunity to
learn to read in 1974 and who per-
severed in spite of vision greatly im-
paired by his advanced age.

Prior to October, 1964, only
scattered attempts had been made to
teach the ethnic minorities of Vietnam
to read and write their own languages.
The few schools were operated
entirely in Vietnamese so that most of
the montagnard children dropped out
after a few weeks in school. In 1964 a
decree was passed authorizing bilingual
education for the minorities. There
have been many hindrances along the
way; but in spite of hindrances, there
are countless thousands of these tribal
people who are now literate. Dick
Watson (WBT/SIL) in his biennial
director's report (1975) to the
Vietnam/Cambodia branch says,
"There have been delays in the literacy
program, which we'd hoped would be
running at full steam without our help
by this time. However, with the re-
ports of poor programs and non-
existent programs, I also get reports of
active programs and new readers in
many areas. A few weeks ago a Koho
man was bemoaning some of the
poorer programs, but ended in a happy
note by saying, 'We Koho are fortu-
nate because the Irwins (C&MA) have
good schools going and many Chris-
tians are learning to read the Scrip-
tures in their schools.'"

From the Bahnar tribe also comes
an encouraging report of progress in
hteracy classes in public schools, adult

literacy classes, and church-related
literacy programs. One Bahnar pastor
has about 85 people learning to read in
four congregations where he is respon-
sible.

The Chru bihngual program suf-
fered many setbacks, but finally got
started. In Tuyen Due Province the
Chru teacher-training workshop was
suddenly cancelled, along with several
others, because of a security threat.
This meant that there could be no
Chru workshop for at least another
year because Gene and Carol Fuller
had already postponed their furlough
some months in order to finish the
Chru textbooks and train the teachers
in their use. It also meant a continua-
tion of the unhappy situation in Chru
country, where the teachers have been
'lobbying' for books in their own lang-
uage for the past several years and
have been extremely disgruntled to see
their Koho neighbors have such books
while the Chru are neglected. And not
only was there unhappiness in Chru
land but also in Saigon, where two or
three exceptional Chru hold positions

in government and have often com-
plained to SIL Directors about the
neglect of the Chru in the literacy pro-
gram ... so we all prayed ... and the
next thing we heard was that the Chru
teachers had petitioned for special per-
mission to hold the workshop; per-
mission was granted; the Lord pro-
vided security; the Fullers helped at
the workshop and then came right to
Saigon and on to the States .... One
good report they brought was that one
of the sharpest teachers ... was greatly
pleased to learn that Gene and Carol
were fellow believers and earnestly re-
quested their prayers for his teaching
and witnessing ministry among both
his pupils and his fellow teachers.

Even Vietnamese officials who
often opposed education in the
minority languages sometimes had
their eyes opened. In one area where
the officials had previously showed
open hostility, by 1974 they were so
enthusiastic about the program and
materials that they were determined to
continue even without outside help.

Dr. Ernest Lee, an alumnus of Bryan with the class of 1952, also holds the B.D. and
Th.M. degrees from Grace Tlieological Seminary and the Ph.D. from Indiana University. He
has served with Wycliffe Bible Translators since 1956, including two terms in Vietnam from
1958-1963 and 1966-1971. Since 1972 he has taught courses in advanced phonology and
linguistics and hteracy at the International Linguistic Center of Wycliffe, Dallas, as an
associate professor of Unguistics with the University of Texas in Arlington.

BRYAN LIFE

"And they sung a new song, saying,
Thou art worthy ... for thou wast
slain, and hast redeemed us ... out of
every kindred, and tongue and people
and nation"! Revelation 5:9).The Lord
had already put a song on the Ups of
the people of Vietnam. The
montagnard Christians love to sing. In
1970 the Lord sent a young Roglai
boy named Tio of about 16 to live
with Lois and me in the city of
Nhatrang. Tio evidenced an ability to
learn music quickly although what
little he had learned to play the pump
organ was vifith very awkward finger-
ing. At first we had to laugh at the
way he held his fingers, but very
quickly he learned the 'noots' as he
called them. Each week we would
work on a new hymn: Tio and his aunt
and I, on the words and Tio and Lois,
on the music. He would learn the
melody and the harmony and on Sun-
day would go to the nearby Roglai vil-
lage and teach all four parts of the har-
mony to the newly developing choir
without the benefit of any instrument.
Soon he was making up his own
hymns. The last we knew he was still
using Western type tunes and harmony
even though we would have liked to
see him make use of native Roglai type
music.

Using native type music, however,
is something that was just beginning to
take place in Vietnam. Brah, a Bahnar
tribesman who had 80% of his body
burned in an accident, was in the same
ward in a Saigon hospital with four-
year-old Jonathan Gregerson, son of
Bible translators. Jonathan's parents
brought portions of the Bahnar New
Testament and played a taped testi-
mony through which Brah came to
know the Lord. As a faithful witness,
he taught a group of young people to
sing hymns, but the hymns were
rejected by unbelievers as foreign.
Brah immediately sat down and wrote
a new song, using a Bahnar tune!

Jesus said, "I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it"(Matthew 16:l8.).Were those
years Vietnam and Cambodia were
kept open by American presence
worth it? Jesus has done a lot of build-
ing during these years and I am willing
to claim his assurance that the gates of
hell shall not prevail against the church
which he has built there. He can bring
victory in catastrophe! BL

Vietnamese

Refugee
Involvement

Ahree Bryan-related sponsors have
found expression for their desire to
help Vietnamese refugees by bringing
three families to Dayton from Fort
Chaffee, Ark. Many others in the col-
lege family and in the community have
shared to provide for these homeless
families.

Early in May, Huy Le-Quan, a 1975
Bryan graduate, learned that his
brother, Phuc, and his cousin, Mrs.
Hung Do, with her family of nine had
escaped from Saigon and were among
the refugees at the Arkansas Camp.
Huy's brother was the first to be pro-
cessed to come to Dayton on May 17,
and within a week Mr. and Mrs. Do
came with their six children and Mr.
Do's mother.

About a month later, our younger
student, Quang Chu, learned that his
aunt's family had escaped by boat and
had also found refuge at Fort Chaffee
on May 22. After the processing
period, this family of Mrs. Cao Nguyen
with her daughter, Thanh Mai, and her
son, Toung, came to Dayton together
with Thanh Mai's fiance, Capt. Mai
Nguyen and his brother, Lan. On July
3 1 the engaged couple were united in
marriage in an American style wedding
conducted by their sponsor, Dr. T. C.
Mercer, in the Bryan Chapel.

A third family of Mr. and Mrs. Tan
Duong and three of their children,
who are related to the first family,

came to Dayton on July 16 to com-
plete a Vietnamese representation of
20 refugees, all from Saigon. In
addition are our two students (one of
whom has graduated and will be at-
tending the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville this fall) through whom
these families were contacted but
whose parents have remained in Viet-
nam without any opportunity for
communication since April 29.

A he provision of houses, furniture,
clothing, and other supplies, plus em-
ployment for most of the adults, has
been a united effort by many friends
in the community and a demonstra-
tion of the Lord's direction to meet
many needs. Special efforts are being
made to minister also to the spiritual
welfare through fellowship in one of
the local churches and through Bible
studies translated into the Vietnamese
language. In the Bryan family there is
a keen awareness of this unique oppor- .
tunity to share our faith in God with
these newcomers to our community.
There is a deep concern also for the
thousands in other American homes
and communities as well as the still
greater number who were not able to
leave their homeland but are confined
under the new government in Viet-
nam.

We invite you to join in prayerful
concern for the total welfare of our
new Vietnamese neighbors and for
their loved ones still in Vietnam. BL

FALL 1975

hrist

Above ALL

A COLLEGE MOTTO:
SHIBBOLETH OR REALITY?

by Theodore Mercer

learly every educational institu-
tion has a motto, usually a part of the
official seal, expressing the ideal
aspiration of that school at the time
the school was founded and the motto
chosen. This motto for older colleges
and universities is usually in Latin; for
younger schools like Bryan, in English.
The first motto of Bryan was "God
Over AH," but in the early years this
was changed to "Christ Above AH" be-
cause of the varied and sometimes
nebulous way in which the term God
is used. As the late president emeritus,
Judson A. Rudd, explained, it was felt
that "Christ Above AH" was more de-
finitive and conveyed more clearly the
idea which the pioneer generation of
Bryan College wished to express.

If the Bryan community is to ad-
dress itself seriously to such a
standard, a question to be answered is:
Why should Christ be above all? The
answer to this question is a major part
of the New Testament message and is
given in a compact form in Colossians
1:15-20, where the Apostle Paul sets
forth explicitly who Christ is. which in
turn is the reason why He must be the
preeminent one.

Jesus Christ is the preeminent one
because:

1. He "is the image of the invisible
God" (Col. 1:15a). The Scriptures
teach that God is a spirit (John 4:24aJ
who alone has the power of life in
Himself and whom no one ever has
seen or can see (1 Tim. 6:16). At the
same time, the Bible teaches that Jesus
Christ has fully revealed God to man.
Jesus says to us, as He said to that
disciple long ago, "He that hath seen
me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9).
This true and complete revelation is

possible because Jesus Christ is Him-
self fully God, "the brightness of
God's glory and the express image of
his person" (Heb. 1 :3a); and Paul testi-
fies that all the fullness of deity dwelt
bodily in Christ (Col. 1:19 and 2:9).
That we can know this transcendent,
invisible God is possible because He
has been fully, completely, and visibly
revealed in Jesus Christ. Consequently,
when we want to know what the in-
visible God is Like, we look at Jesus
Christ, because it is in Him we can see,
understand, and know God.

2. He is the eternal Son of God. In
the first four centuries of the Christian
church, every possible error concern-
ing the nature of the person of Christ
came to the surface as the theological
understanding of the concept of how
God could take on a true human life
and still be fully God was being
developed. There are no new errors
today, only old heresies sometimes
with new names. In any case, the issue
as to whether Christ is the pre-existent
Son of God frorn eternity is crucial.

The eternity of the Son is express-
ed in this Colossian passage by three
terms: (1) "the firstborn of all
creation" (v. 15b); (2) "He is before
all things" (v. 1 7a); and (3) "He is the
beginning" (v 18b). By firstborn is
meant not that Christ was the first to
be born but that He existed before all
creation as the firstborn exists before
the rest of the family. The term, which
anticipates the statement "He is before
all things" of verse 17, also means that
all creation is Christ's inheritance as
the firstborn. These statements signify
Christ's primacy in time and His
priority to all created things as well as
His supremacy of authority over all
things. The third term, "the begin-
ning," marks out Jesus as the Divine

Wisdom and connects with Revelation
3:14, "the beginning of the creation of
God," and harks back to Proverbs
8:22, possibly also to Genesis 1:1.

John testifies to the eternity of the
Son in the marvelous prologue of his
gospel (John 1:1-14), a passage to be
read in its entirety to see this truth in
its completeness. "!n the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with
God and the Word was God" is the
pivotal statement of that subUme fact.
This passage makes clear that the eter-
nal Word, the Logos from the begin-
ning, became flesh, dwelt among men,
and manifested His glory as the unique
Son of God. The phrase "only begot-
ten," verse 14 of the prologue and
John 3:16, can be understood in the
light of Hebrews 1:5 and 5:5, which
quote Psalm 2:7, describing the act of
God in the birth of Jesus, "Thou art
my son, this day I have begotten
thee." It is important to distinguish
here between begotten and made as
the early Christian creeds were careful
to do.

^lone of these expressions indicates
that Christ became the Son of God at
His birth but rather they refer to the
pre-existent Christ Paul describes in
Philippians 2. As Isaiah points out,
"Unto us a Child is born, unto us a
Son is given." The Son was not born;
the Son was with the Father from all
ages, but the child Jesus was born in
Bethlehem when the Word became
flesh.

3. He is the creator, not the
created one-"for by Him were all
things created ... all things were
created by Him and for Him" (Col.
1:16). From the times of Colosse until
today there have been those who have
claimed in one way or another that

BRYAN LIFE

Jesus Christ is less than fully God,
teaching that He was a created being,
the first of God's creation in eternity.
One such contemporary group has
actually interpolated "other" into Col.
1:16 to support their teaching that
Christ was the first creation of the
Father.

J'aul refutes this ancient error by
stating not only that Christ is not a
created being but that by Him or
through Him all created things came
into being. John testifies in his pro-
logue that "all things were made by
Him and without Him (or apart from
Him) was not anything made that was
made." The writer of Hebrews also
affirms Christ as the creator (Heb.
1 : 2c) when he says that it was by the
Son the Father created the worlds —
which, in light of Col. 1:16, surely
means the whole space-time con-
tinuum. ."Vnd in addition to His being
set forth as the creator of all things,
Christ is presented as the upholder and
sustainer of the universe (Heb. 1:3b
and Col. l;17b), "upholding the uni-
verse by the Word of His power."

4. He is the head of the church,
the body of believers (Col. 1:18). That
Christ is the spiritual and living head
of the whole body of believers is
clearly stated in Scripture. Paul says
explicitly that this relationship is
based on the death of Christ on the
cross and His resurrection from the
dead ("the firstborn from the dead"
— that is, the first one to come from
the dead, with the power of an endless
life; see also Rev. 1:17, 18). It is be-
cause of living union with the crucified
and risen Christ that the believer is en-
abled to live the Christian life: ".^.nd
you, that were sometime alienated and
enemies in your mind by wicked
works, yet now hath he reconciled in
the body of his flesh through death, to
present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight" (Col.
1:21-22). This truth brings heaven
down to earth and makes possible the
salvation of all who truly believe in
Christ.

These truths bring us full circle to
the climactic statement that Christ
alone is to be in all things supreme —
"that in all things He might have the

preeminence " (Col. 1:18c). Paul sum-
marizes the reasons for this pre-
eminence by stating that in Christ are
hidden "all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge" (Col. 2:3) and the be-
hever is "complete in Him" (Col.
2:10).

5 o Bryan as a Christian college
community with a motto of "Christ
Above .Ml" comes to its total program
with this foundation philosophy that
the ultimate truth is in Jesus Christ
and that vital Christianity comes about
when the truth as it is in Jesus Christ is
accepted and practiced. The Apostle
Paul sets forth in the Colossian letter
the absolute superiority of Jesus
Christ; Bryan College expresses its
Jiighest ideal and practical ambition in
its motto, "Christ Above All," with
the goal that Christ will be truly in all,
through all, and above all in the lives
of the members of the college com-
munity. And though this is a standard
never perfectly achieved, it can be
more than a commendable aspiration
as the members of a community give
themselves to it. BL

FALL 1975

J^ore than

a mJ emorial

^^n the cloudless morning of June
16, 1975, with the early sun shining
warmly, the long-awaited day of the
ground-breaking for the Rudd Mem-
orial Chapel became a reality. During a
brief but impressive ceremony, includ-
ing Scripture, hymns and appropriate
remarks led by Dr. T. C. Mercer, pre-
sident, and Dr. J. B. Bartlett, vice pre-
sident, Mrs. Judson A. Rudd and her
daughter, Mary Frances, turned the
first shovel of earth at the site which
would bear the memorial for Dr. J. A.
Rudd. Many friends, including local
trustees, trustees emeriti, and other
long-time friends of Dr. Rudd, attend-
ed. Equipment from Radio Station
WDNT enabled on-the-spot broadcast-
ing of the ceremony. As the crowd dis-
appeared from the site, bulldozers im-
mediately moved into position, begin-
ning excavation for the foundation.

Dr. Rudd; An Example

"Lives of great men all remind us
that our lives can be sublime and de-
parting leave behind us footprints in
the sands of time." These words of the
great American poet, Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow, frame a fitting ex-
pression of the life of Dr. Judson A.
Rudd. In his eulogy at Dr. Rudd's
memorial service. Dr. Richard
Cornelius referred to him as "pro-
fessor, president, treasurer, tractor-
driver, surveyor, sports enthusiast,
maintenance expert, money raiser,
Bible-believer, and brother in the
Lord." He was all these things, but he
was more than these. Dr. Judson A.
Rudd was a spiritual leader whose own
life exemplified those Christ-like quali-
ties which he believed should be the
hallmark of every Bryan student. It
was fitting, therefore, that one whose
life was so totally dedicated to the
cause of Christ and to the service of
others be memorialized in a special
way.

When the initial blow of his unex-
pected death on October 6, 1970,
passed, Bryan College alumni from
around the world responded positively
to the idea of a memorial. They

initiated the idea that a chapel bearing
his name be constructed and set the
alumni goal of $100,000 toward the
total cost of $500,000, as the building
was initially planned. There was gen-
eral agreement, especially among
alumni, that the Rudd Memorial
should house the college chapel and
that its use should be restricted solely
to spiritual activities. The Equitable
Church Builders Company of Nashville
was called upon in early consultation
and was later employed as architects
for the project.

Enthusiasm mounted as a site for
this imposing new facility was con-
sidered. A committee including
trustees, administrators and alumni
began touring the campus from corner
to corner, looking for an ideal loca-
tion. Because of the many advantages,
including especially the natural eleva-
tion of the land and the fact that the
Rudd Memorial would be a proper
first main building to be seen as one
approached the college campus, a loca-
tion was selected just north and east of
faculty circle on the brow of the large
hill above the athletic field. The im-
posing facade of the building would
face directly south, allowing a sweep-
ing view of the valley and the Waldens
Ridge of the Cumberland Mountains.

As different constituents of the
college began to consider the concept
of the memorial as a worship center
only, many questions were asked. Be-
cause of inadequate facilities, teaching
in the Division of Fine Arts was im-
paired. Each semester the division had
to turn away students. Voice and
piano practice areas were inadequate
for student needs. The expanding art
department, having been uprooted on
several occasions because of inade-
quate space allocations, was moved on
each occasion to another undesirable
space. The Division of Fine Arts plead-
ed for expanded, if not better facili-
ties. Out of these considerations grew
the idea of adding the Fine Arts Com-
plex to the initial chapel proposal. The
natural elevation of the land selected
for the site would permit a large
ground-level area to be developed for

band and choir rooms, small recital
hall, offices, classrooms and instru-
mental practice rooms. With the re-
vision of the plans to include the Fine
Arts Complex, the auditorium proper
was expanded to seat 800 with space
planned for a future balcony to be
used initially for seven music studios,
the Fine Arts Division office, and a
music library. Should the growth of
the student body ever demand that
this fine arts space be used for chapel
seating, the original design was plan-
ned so a fine arts wing could be easily
and attractively added to the initial
structure. In addition to the large audi-
torium on the main floor, a small
prayer chapel seating approximately
100 people has been designed for the
purpose of various small convocations.
In October of 1973 the trustees
voted to approve the suggestion for
the addition of the Fine Arts Complex
to the Rudd Memorial. Once again the
wheels began turning and many con-
ferences, including architects, trustees,
faculty and administration, were set in
motion. Long hours of give and take
were spent laboring over initial plans.
The Equitable Builders of Nashville,
who were employed by the college for
the project, now made several trips
back and forth across the mountains
to keep us current on the development
of the plans. With the greatly ex-
panded facilities now including the
Fine Arts Complex, plus fast spiraling
costs, the new projected cost of the
Rudd Memorial soared to $800,000,
not including the price of the organ
for the sanctuary or room furnishings.
To add a spark of enthusiasm to the
project, the trustees had voted earlier
that the spire designed by art instruc-
tor, Wayne Hook, which was to be-
come a part of the completed
memorial, should be ordered and
erected at homecoming in October of
197 2. The mid-October day was
glorious and many alumni and friends
who knew and loved Dr. Rudd
gathered for this impressive ceremony.
Four crosses at the base circling the
center spire topped with a four-faceted
cross reaching 75 feet toward the sky

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was raised, signifying tlie fact that one
day this would be the spot where the
Bryan College family would worship.

The Rudd Memorial Chapel and
Fine Arts Complex had now become
the biggest undertaking the college had
ever attempted. It seemed that only
through a miracle could so small a col-
lege raise nearly 51,000,000 for the
completion of this gargantuan task. Al-
though there was great initial en-
thusiasm, financial support came in
slowly. The alumni response was most
gratifying; but the SI 00,000 which
they had pledged, a large part of which
was now in hand, was still a small part
of the total. A new thrust for the pro-
ject was badly needed.

In February of 1973 the trustees
asked Dr. Bartlett to consider
shouldering the responsibility of fund-
raising for the Rudd Memorial. Much
reflection was given to this tremen-
dous undertaking but at the May meet-
ing of the board he agreed to oversee
the task. Larry Levenger, an alumnus
of the college, was hired to assist in
the fund raising for this project. An
intensified campaign was begun.

In his previous work, Mr. Levenger
had successfully used an audio-visual
presentation which was not much
larger than a briefcase and which could
be shown very simply in one-to-one
contacts. He envisioned this as being a
much-needed tool in telling the Bryan
College story emphasizing the need of
the Rudd Memorial. Dr. Mercer, Dr.
Bartlett and he immediately began this
phase of the program, working with
the professional council of the staff of
Filmsound Studios in CoUegedale,
Tennessee. Very carefully and very
slowly a script was developed telling
the Bryan College story. A profes-
sional photographer came to campus
and captured every facet of college
life. After many revisions the script
was finished and select pictures were
chosen from the hundreds which had
been taken. The two were syn-
chronized by Filmsound Studios and a
ten-minute professional audio-visual
presentation, an excellent piece of
publicity material, was ready to be

Dr. Mercer and Mrs. Judson A. Rudd.

carried far and near sharing the story
and the need. Alumni, college donors,
and foundations— all were able to see
an up-to-date picture of Bryan College.

Gifts toward the Rudd Memorial
began to come in at an accelerated
pace. By this time the alumni had
reached their goal of 5100,000 and
were considering what would be a rea-
sonable mark beyond this point for
them to achieve. An intensified cam-
paign was developed within the im-
mediate college family including
faculty, staff and administration, the
college trustees, and the Rhea County
Advisory Council. Each of these
groups responsed enthusiastically.

By now the word concerning the
Rudd Memorial was beginning to
spread, and larger donations were
being received. A retired citrus grower
and his wife, impressed with the pro-
gram of Bryan College, simply as he
knew it through the sharing of an
alumnus, sent a gift of 550,000. A per-
sonal friend of the chairman of the
board of trustees sent a gift of
525,000. An acquaintance of one of
the administrators of the college
shared the need with a great indus-
trialist who sent a check for $25,000.
Personal friends of a Bryan faculty
member gave a gift of 525,000 for the
prayer chapel. An area foundation
gave a gift of 525,000 and the Kresge
Foundation of Troy, Michigan, has
made a challenge gift of $50,000.
These larger gifts, combined with
multitudes of smaller ones from faith-
ful Bryan College supporters, have
brought the total amount in contri-
butions and pledges to slightly over
5600,000.

Each day brings new progress in the
project and the proposed completion
date for the fall of 1976 is anticipated.
The $800,000 figure for the project
does not include organ and piano for
the sanctuary or the furnishings for
classrooms. Memorial opportunities
are available for those interested in the
project. Your inquiries are invited and
should be addressed to the attention
of Dr. John B. Bartlett. vice president
of the college. BL

KRESGE
SPURS R(
RAISING

Bryan CoUegS
challenge grant of $50,000 from tH
Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan.
Announcement of the grant was made
to college personnel on July 21 by Dr.
John B. Bartlett, vice president of the
college.

The grant was made toward com-
pletion of the Rudd Memorial Chapel
and fine arts comple.x already undei
construction. Ground was broken for
the new facility on June 16.

According to Dr. Theodore C. Mer-
cer, president of Bryan, the chapel was
conceived by the alumni association as
a memorial to the late Dr. Judson A.
Rudd, who served the college as pro-
fessor, treasurer, president, and presi-
dent emeritus from 1931 untU his
death in 1970.

The Kresge Foundation, one of the
largest in the United States in size of
assets and appropriations, was created
solely through the gifts of the late
Sebastian S. Kresge. Although Mr.
Kresge was also the founder fo the S.S.
Kresge Company, the Foundation and
the Company are not related in any
way.

Most Foundation support is in the
form of challenge grants to institutions
in the fields of education, health
services, the arts, social welfare, and
care of the young and the aging. Con-
struction and major renovation of fa-
cilities is the Foundation's primary
concern. A few policy exceptions, con-
fined to the Metropolitan Detroit area
where the Foundation has its head-
quarters, have been made solely on the
initative of the Trustees.

Completion of the Rudd Memorial
Chapel will be the capstone of the
ten-year development program
adopted by the Bryan College Board
of Trustees in 1964.

RUDD MEMORIAL CHAPEL FUND

DONOR

CATEGORY

PAID

PLEDGED

Rliea County

Advisory

Committee

$ 46,483

S 70,632

Alumni

71,387

119,372

Faculty and

Staff

11,755

31,395

Friends

157,629

191,963

Rudd Family

5,665

Trustees

101,664

127,329

Interest earned

28,472

5423,055 $574,828

KRESGE CHALLENGE GRANT 50,000

GRAND TOTAL of all

contributions including cash

and pledges 9-1-75 $624,828

AMOUNT required by 9-1-76

to qualify for Kiesge Grant 175,172

Total Basic Construction Cost 5800,000

FALL 1975

MAJOR FOUNDATION CHALLENGE GRANT

A major foundation has pledged $50,000 toward
the Rudd Memorial Chapel on the condition that
Bryan raise an additional $220,000 for that project
by September 1976. Each dollar given to the Rudd
Chapel fund to meet this challenge will be in-
creased 25% by this foundation grant.

MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM

More than 600 national companies contribute to
higher education through a matching gift program
by which an employee's contribution is matched
by the company. Rules for qualification vary, but
the result is increased financial support. Inquire at
your personnel office as to whether your employer
is a matching gift company, or write for free bro-
chure entitled, "Double your Dollars," listing hun-
dreds of matching gift companies.

inter 1976

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BRYAN LIFE

BRYAN LIFE MAGAZINE

Editorial Office, William Jennings,
Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee
37321. Publishing Office, Cross
Roads Publications, Inc., 2110
Silver Hill Road, Stone Mountain,
Georgia 30083, 404/939-6507.

Dr. Theodore C. Mercer,

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Robert C. Hill, EDITOR

John Weyant, MANAGING

EDITOR

Shirley Holmes, CIRCULATION

MANAGER

Steve Lester, ART DIRECTOR

Consulting Editors: Dr. John
Bartlett, Larry Levenger, Rebecca
Peck and Charles Robinson.

BRYAN LIFE is published four
times annually by William Jen-
nings Bryan College, Dayton, Ten-
nessee. Produced and printed by
Cross Roads Publications. Second
class postage paid at Dayton, Ten-
nessee.

William Jennings Bryan College

Dayton, Tennessee

COVER PICTURE:
Dr. Irving Jensen, Bryan's senior
member of the faculty and best-
knov\/n teacher by virtue of his
numerous writings, is shown going
over one of his teaching charts

with two seniors Roddy Miller

(left) of Columbia, S.C., a psycho-
logy major, and Janet Davis of
Babson Park, Fla., an elementary
education major. Known for his
promotion of the inductive
method of Bible study. Dr. Jen-
sen's first book, published in
1963, was Independent Bible
Study, which established him as
an author. Since that time he has
written forty-five other study
volumes covering the entire Bible.
The last three in this series will be
brought out next spring by
Moody Press along with three
volumes of Bible charts. One of
his books. Enjoy Your Bible, was
distributed by the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association through
one of its telecasts.

(Cover photo by Cunnyngham
Photography, Dayton,
Tennessee.)

Volume 1

Winter 1976

Number 2

THE ANATOMY OF A BEQUEST: Improvements made on campus through
monies willed to the school.

THE SOLID CASE FOR INSPIRATION; The Bible is more than a best-seller; it is
truly of divine origin. By Kenneth S. Kantzer

ENROLLMENT GROWTH SHOWS DORMITORY NEED: As enrollment increases
so does the need for additional facilities. By Dr. Theodore Mercer

RUDD MEMORIAL CHAPEL CONSTRUCTION PROGRESSES: A pictorial look
at the building of Rudd Chapel.

CAMPUS REVIEW: A bird's-eye view of campus activities, faculty happenings and
news of interest.

BOOK OR ARTIFACT?: The Bible requires much more than a cursory glance to be
understood and appreciated. By Irving L. Jensen

SPOTLIGHT ON SPORTS: Share in the accomplishments of our cross-country and
soccer teams, winners of NCCAA titles.

''A real
eye " grabber

in color and layout as well as being filled with timely articles . . . ." is the comment which
summarizes much of the reader reaction to the first issue of Bryan Life. An executive of a
publishing firm wrote that he was ". . . impressed not only by the graphics but also by the
content." An official of a nearby state university wrote'about the "happy corribination of
format and content." An alumnus proudly described the magazine as "tremendous" and
said he had read it "from 'lid to lid' with great interest and enthusiasm." Another
alumnus rated the magazine as ". . . just one of a long list of recent accomplishments
which makes me very proud to be a graduate of Bryan." A news correspondent wrote, "I
. . . was stirred by the article 'Victory in Catastrophe' as I had not thought of the spiritual
connection with Viet Nam and Cambodia." We especially prize this latter comment
because one of the purposes of this new publication is to include articles which minister
to the reader in a spiritual way.

Lest you think our heads are turned by all these pleasant compliments, the members
of the editorial committee, in addition to taking a close look ourselves, are relying also on
two professional consultants, whose evaluations are directed to the specifics which would
not be of primary interest to the general reader.

I wish to express our appreciation to all who wrote. You have helped us.

Theodore C. Mercer

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The Anatomy of a Bequest

Besides the Allen ($400,000) and Summers ($700,000)
bequests, which in previous years had major effect in the
development of the college, nearly every year, bequests
provide for improvements not otherwise possible. In 1974
the college was notified of a bequest of "all my Continental
Can stock" from Mrs. Nellie Norton Smitherman, of
Shreveport, La. Mrs. Smitherman was not on the college
mailing list, nor could any known connection be establish-
ed. She grew up in Union City, Tenn., where her father was
a Baptist minister around the turn of the century. It may be
surmised that her family were admirers of William Jennings
Bryan, who carried Tennessee in all his attempts at the
presidency. The wording of the will and the list of legatees
showed a breadth of evangelical Christian concern.

The 1882 shares of this stock brought $47,000 when
sold this year. The trustees had allocated the proceeds from
this sale to cover a number of plant-fund projects as fol-
lows:

• Art and service building, constructed in the summer
of 1975, adjacent to present service building with the
top floor for the art department and the ground floor
for buildings and grounds department

• Kitchen equipment to accommodate the expanding
enrollment of boarding students

• Air conditioning for the Lions Den, the student
center

If you share Mrs. Smitherman 's concern for Christian
ministry and would like information or assistance on the
subject of giving through your will, write:

Larrv Levenger. Director of Development

BR YAN COLLEGE

Dayton, Tennessee 37321

Art and storage building as completed this fall.

Mr. Russell Stansbury, director a; special projects, stands next to
new 20-gallon steam kettle, one of several pieces of equipment
installed this summer to aid in preparing meals for a growing student
body.

Art student. Linda Pedde from Dayton, Tenn.. adds finishing
touches to painting.

Students enjoy newly installed air-conditioning while lounging in
the Lions Den.

WINTER 1976

Dr. Kantzer with his sister. Ruth, an
associate professor of English at
Bryan.

Dr. Kenneth S. Kantzer, dean of
Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School, Deerfield. Illinois, was
the speaker for the sixth annual
Staley Distinguished Christian
Scholar Lectures held in Octo-
ber. Using as his general theme,
"The Inspiration of the Bible,"
Dr. Kantzer spoke on the follow-
ing topics; "The Modern Attack
on Inspiration," "The Solid Case
for Biblical Inspiration," "Com-
mon Objections to Biblical In-
spiration," "The Importance of
Biblical Inspiration," and
"Christian Uses of the Bible."
The lecture printed here is num-
ber two in this series.

The Staley Distinguished
Christian Scholar Lecture pro-
gram was established in 1969 by
Mr. Thomas F. Staley of Delray
Beach, Florida, ". . . to further
the evangelical witness of the
Christian Church, and with a
particular concern for college
students. Deeming the cause
worthy and the need great, the
trustees of this Foundation will
support men and women who
truly believe, cordially love, and
effectively propagate the gospel
of Jesus Christ in its historic and
scriptural fulness." The program
currently operating in some two
hundred institutions is endowed
by and administered through the
Staley Foundation. Mr. Staley
was a founding partner of
Reynolds Securities, Inc., and is
a native of Bristol, Tennessee.

The Sol*

The first purpose of the Bible is to
introduce us to Jesus Christ as our per-
sonal Lord and Savior. The second
purpose is to provide us with instruc-
tion from Christ by which He can
exercise His Lordship over us effec-
tively and thus lead us to lives of
obedience and rich usefulness. 2
Timothy 3:14-17 gives us these two
purposes in logical order:

But as for you, continue in
what you have learned and
have become convinced of,
because you know those from
whom you learned it, and
how from infancy you have
known the holy Scriptures,
which are able to make you
wise for salvation through
faith in Christ Jesus. All
Scripture is God-breathed and
is useful for teaching, rebuk-
ing, correcting and training in
righteousness, so that the
man of God may be
thoroughly equipped for
every good work. (N.I.V.)
The last two verses of our
Scripture tell us that the Bible was
produced by divine inspiration of the
Holy Spirit; and, therefore, it is profit-
able for our doctrine, instruction, and
our understanding of the right way of
life, for the guidance of our Christian
life, and for our Christian thought.
The Bible possesses this power because
it was inspired of God.

The word "inspired" probably
needs a little clarification. In English,
the word often means something
equivalent to personal excitation. Ac-
cordingly, Holy Scripture would result
from a personal excitation of the Bibli-
cal author. But this is not at all the
meaning of the passage here. The
Greek word is in the passive; it means
"God breathed," or "God produced."
That comes closest to a proper under-
standing of what the apostle is saying
here. Holy Scripture was divinely pro-
duced; and because it was divinely pro-
duced, it is, therefore, unlike all other
writings, profitable for our under-
standing of the will of God and what is
needed in order that we might relate
ourselves rightly to Him and be
obedient to Him.

This is what our Lord taught in the
seventh chapter of Mark, where He

refers to the Scripture as the "Word o
God."

And the Pharisees and Scribes
asked Him [Jesus] ; "Why do
your disciples not walk ac-
cording to the tradition of
the elders but eat their bread
with impure hands?" And He
said to them: "Rightly did
Isaiah prophesy of you hypo-
crites, as it is written, 'This
people honors me with their
lips but their heart is far away
from me,' But in vain do they
worship me, teaching as doc-
trines the precepts of men,
neglecting the commandment
of God, you hold to the tradi-
tion of men." (Mark 7:5)
The Pharisees were guiding their
lives by the traditions of men.
Jesus rebuked them, therefore, for
negating the message of Moses and
Isaiah because in doing so they
were setting aside not just the
word of Moses and Isaiah but of
God.

The Scriptures Are Trustworthy

In Matthew 5 our Lord adds th
thought that because Scripture is th
Word of God, it is entirely trusti
worthy. Listen to the familiar verses oi
Matthew 5:17-19: j

Think not that I am come to
destroy the law or the pro- j
phets; I am not come to
destroy but to fulfill. Verily I
say unto you. Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one
tittle shall in no wise pass
from the law till all be fulfill-
ed. Whoever, therefore, shall
break one of these least com-
mandments and shall teach
men so, he shall be called the
least in the kingdom of
heaven. But whosoever shall
do and teach them, the same
shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven.
A parallel passage is located in Luk
16:17: "And it is easier for heave
and earth to pass, than one tittle c
the law to fail." Note concerning th
passage from Matthew 5 and fror
Luke 16 that we have here direc
teaching from our Lord. This is not
case of our Lord's accommodatin

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ase For Inspiration

by Kenneth S. Kantzer

Himself to the views of the scribes so
as to avoid controversy. Not at all!
Absolutely the reverse of that! Having
gotten into a controversy with them.
He is rebuking the Pharisees because,
as a matter of fact, they have stood for
the authority of the tradition of men;
and in our Lord's mind, they have done
so to the destruction of the authority
of Scripture. For this reason, He
tackles directly and head-on the issue
of the authority of Scripture. This
divine authority of Scripture, more-
over, resides in the whole of the Old
Testament. In one passage, He refers
just to the law. And it is abundantly
clear that, in these particular contexts,
they mean for Him the same thing—
namely, the Old Testament Scriptures
which the Jews knew and whose
authority they were jeopardizing by
adhering to their traditions. Scripture,
so Jesus avers, is to be filled out and
cannot be reckoned as void or of no
weight. You don't dare set it aside.
That's the idea in Luke especially. It
can't be put aside as of no weight. In
Matthew, similarly. His point is that in
no way can it be broken. It must be
adhered to and brought to its fruition,
its fulfillment, because it is God's
Word to us. And this value of
Scripture, therefore, extends to its
minutest proportions.

The Liberals and the Documents

It also is worth noting that both of
these passages are thought to come
from the Sermon on the Mount. Cer-
tainly the Matthew passage does, and
the Sermon on the Mount is one of the
favorite passages of the liberals. If
liberals are sure historically that any
part of the Bible actually comes from
the teachings of Jesus, it is the
Matthew 5-7 passage containing the
Sermon on the Mount. But in this
passage, representing the core teaching
of Jesus, incontrovertibly stemming
from Him, there is just as clear teach-
ing with respect to the authority of
Scripture and the necessity of abiding
by it as there is in any passage of
Scripture. One of the interesting things
that some of you who have a special
concern for this may like to do, is to
note how the Scriptures are divided up
in various documents by some liberal

scholars. "Q" is the common source
that lies behind much of Matthew and
Luke, so many liberals say; and then
there is the Gospel of Mark, and there
is Luke's special material and
Matthew's special material, and, of
course, the Gospel of John. So you get
several documents here spread through
our four Gospels. But it doesn't make
any difference how you divide the
documents. So long as you keep the
Biblical statements intact, the teaching
of our Lord with respect to the
authority of the Bible shines through
all of it. The farther we go back in
history, even assuming the metho-
dology by which the liberal seeks to
separate these documents, there is no
question that at the very root of the
teaching of Jesus Christ was this clear
conviction with respect to the com-
plete authority of Holy Scripture in its
minutest proportions. Every true fol-
lower of Jesus Christ has no other
choice but to heed it and to obey it.

In John 10:34,35 our Lord again is
in controversy with the Pharisees. To
support His argument. He cites a psalm
and then inserts a short sentence in be-
tween which gives us a clue as to His
view of the authority of Scripture.
Jesus answered them (the Jews): "Has
it not been written in your Law, T
said, you are gods?' If He called them
gods to whom the Word of God came,
and the Scripture cannot be broken,
do you say of him . . ." and then on
with the rest of His argument. The im-
portant part of the passage is that little
clause, "Scripture cannot be broken."
It fits like the major premise of a
syllogism. Scripture cannot be broken.
Scripture says this. Therefore, you had
better believe this. That's precisely the
way our Lord outlined His thought.

The Canon of Scripture

Thus far we have been dealing with
passages in which our Lord speaks
directly about the inspiration and
authority of the Scriptures. Now we
must raise the question: "What books
are inspired of God?" We know the Old
Testament books are because our Lord
set the seal of His approval upon the
Old Testament Canon.

As we read the story of the early
New_ Testament church, we discover
that the apostles claimed their

authority was from Him. Moreover,
they worked the miracles that were ap-
propriate to an apostle or to a prophet
who was speaking as a mouthpiece of
God in the Old Testament. Our Lord,
therefore, promised that He was going
to give further revelation to His
apostles. He commissioned them as His
representatives. He gave them the Holy
Spirit to guide them into the truth
that they were not yet ready to hear in
His life in the flesh. And then in the
New Testament church, we find that
they were given that Holy Spirit. They
were also given the power of miracles
to demonstrate that they were not just
making false claims when they said
they were speaking for or were mouth-
pieces for God, but that God was
setting the certification of His ap-
proval upon what they were saying.
We have the claim of the apostles
guaranteed in precisely the same way
that the prophets of the Old Testa-
ment were able to prove the divine
origin of their message in the Old
Testament.

Some Terms Explained '

Four words are often used by
Evangelicals in referring to the
authority of Scripture and its inspira-
tion—the words "plenary," "verbal,"
"infallible," and "inerrant." We use
the word "plenary" meaning simply
"full." From the evidence we have
examined, it is obvious that Christ
taught His disciples that the Bible is
fully inspired in all its parts; not just
simply in part of it. We also use the
word "verbal" to show that the in-
spiration of Scripture was a kind in
which God guided the Biblical authors
so that the words they wrote would
convey the message He wished to com-
municate to His people. As a result of
this plenary and verbal guidance by
the Holy Spirit, the Bible is rendered
infallible and inerrant. Inspiration is
not limited to faith and practice,
meaning to religious viewpoints and to
ethics, or limited in any other way.
Our Lord never gave any principle by
which we could go through the Bible
and pick out the parts which we might
wish to obey as God's word and on the
basis of which we would dare set aside
other parts as not really being the
divine Word for us. Rather, our Lord

WINTER 1976

warned His hearers not to pick and
choose. The Pharisees were doing just
that on the basis of their tradition. By
contrast, you and I who claim to be
disciples of Jesus Christ are to receive
the jot and the tittle —the whole of it
in all its completeness and integrity.
We don't stand in judgment over
Scripture; rather Scripture stands in
judgment over us and our lives and our
thoughts. This is the means by which
our Lord exercises His control and His
guidance over our lives.

What Inspiration Is Not
Perhaps it would help us if we
took just a minute to indicate what
Biblical inspiration is not. It is not, for
example, dictation. Our Lord didn't
say that the way by which God in-
spired the prophet and the apostle was
to dictate as a boss dictates to his
secretary. Not at aU. In fact, in many
passages He plainly rules out any dicta-
tion method of inspiration. Rather the
prophets spoke, Isaiah spoke, Moses
commanded; but as Isaiah spoke and
Moses commanded, as the apostles
spoke, they spoke; but they spoke as
guided by the Holy Spirit, so that
what they spoke freely out of their
own mind and out of their own wUl
was precisely what the Spirit of God
wished to say to you and me as His
Word to us.

The Problem of Language

Again, our Lord didn't say that the
Bible was written in exact and
scientific language. It isn't a precise
book in which ever>'thLng is neatly
hewed according to our modern
standards by which we frequently indi-
cate measurements. The scientists in
Cape Canaveral give the time in milli-
seconds, but you don't find references
to milliseconds in the Bible. You don't
even find references to minutes. Have
you ever noticed that you really don't
find references to hours ver>' often Ln
the Bible? Most of the references in
the Bible are in three-hour periods.
Have you ever noticed that? And if
you think for a moment, you can see
exactly why that is so. It isn't because
nothing ever happened at ten minutes
after four in the days when our Lord
was here on this earth. It's rather that
if our Lord had said, "I will meet you
down at a certain corner in the city of
Nazareth at ten after four," who
would have known when it was ten
after four? Nobody would have known
it was ten after four. AU they had were
v/ater clocks and sand clocks and
sundials and especially the sun. On a
shady day it is ver>' hard to know pre-
cisely when it is four o'clock or ten
after four. And so most of the time

measurements in the Bible are in three-
hour periods because that was the only
practical way in which to speak. The
thing that's made a difference is that
little instrument on your wrist. The
whole world was transformed by the
wristwatch because now we live ac-
cording to minutes and seconds; and,
if you say to somebody, "I'll meet you
down there at four o'clock." and it be-
comes ten after, you figure you've
missed it. But if you don't have a
wristwatch or pocket watch with you,
you win not know when it is ten
minutes after four. In order to com-
municate effectively, the Biblical
writers spoke and wTote in general and
practical terms that could be under-
stood. Therefore, we don't dare judge
the Bible by the exact sort of precise
standards that we ordinarily use to
communicate today in an engineering
course because the Bible wasn't
written in our day and it wasn't writ-
ten specially for engineering students.
It was written in a day without micro-
meters and without wristwatches; and,
so it speaks in the language that would
be understood by the people of that
day and can easily be understood by
you and me today also.

Neither is the Bible wTitten in
literal language exclusively. I'm re-
minded of the story of Professor
Henry Nelson Wieman, who used to
teach religion out at Occidental Col-
lege on the west coast, a fine Presby-
terian college. Wieman, incidentally,
was a Presbyterian minister; but every
time his class would meet at the be-
ginning of the semester, he would say,
"Now, is there anybody in this class
who believes that the Bible is literally
true?" And there would always be a
few hesitant souls that would raise
their hands as a sort of testimony to
the truth and admit that they really
did believe that the Bible is true. Then
he would say to one of them: "So,
you believe the Bible is literally true?
Now in the Old Testament we read
that the hills of Judea clapped their
hands for joy. Do you believe those
hiUs of Judea had hands which banged
together?" And, of course, the em-
barrassed students would say they
didn't believe that. Then Professor
Wieman would say, "Well, if you don't
believe Ln the literal truth of the Old
Testament, let's tn' the New. Do you
remember the passage where our Lord
says, 'Go teU Herod, that fox . . .?' Do
you believe that Herod was a four-
footed, small fuirs' creature? Of course
not! So you don't believe m the literal
truth of the New Testament either.
You don't believe in the literal truth
of the Old Testament or the New

Testament. Let's hear no more foolish-
ness now about taking the Bible as
literally true" And with that he
polished off Orthodox Christianity- for
the rest of the course.

Obviously, no evangelical Christian
that I know of beUeves that the Bible
is Uterally true in ever>' passage. It's
literally true when it speaks in literal
language. But in many passages of
Scripture it speaks in figurative lan-
guage. Our job is not to force a literal
truth on the Biblical wTiter when he is
trying to speak in figurative language
anymore than it is our job to force
figurative truth on him when he's
tr\ing to speak in literal language. It's
our task to discover the truth of what
he is saying: and what Evangelicals
have said in obedience to their Lord is
that the Scripture teUs the truth.

The Real Issue

The real issue is this: What do you
think of Christ? That, after aU, is the
basic issue because you and I profess
to be disciples of Jesus Christ. How
seriously do we mean to take the claim
that we are disciples of Christ? The
real Jesus of historj', the only
authentic Jesus, is the Jesus who at the
ver\- core of His teaching was com-
mitted to the complete authority' of
Holy Scripture. He believed it to be
the Word of God, He lived His life ac-
cording to its precepts, He com-
manded His true disciples to Uve their
lives in obedience to its divine
authorir>', and He rebuked those religi-
ous leaders that set it aside in favor of
human traditions. The real issue that
men have to face with respect to the
inspiration and authorirj" of the Bible
is the basic issue of the Lordship of
Jesus Christ. And that is the issue to
which liberals of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries up to this day have
never really dealt with squarely.

.And now in conclusion I dare not
stop without confessing I have a pro-
blem with respect to the inspiration of
the Bible: but it is not the problem of
believing whether or not it was in-
spired by God and, therefore, that it
teaches the truth and reveals the wiU
of God for me. My problem is obeying
it— translating that Book, the truth
of God, into flesh, into Ufe, as God
would guide me b>' His Holy Spirit ac-
cording to the inerrant standard of
Holy Scripture. That is my problem;
not the intellectual problem of the m-
spiration and authority of Scripture.
Once I made the decision about Jesus
Christ, the problem of BibUcal
authority was settled. It's the
obedience problem that is the real
problem.

BRYAN LIFE

Enrollment Growth
Shows Dormitory Need

ENROLLMENT GROWTH 1971-75

Number

Students

600

575

550
525
500
475
450
425
400
375
350
325

300

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1971

1972 1973 1974 1975

full-time students
dormitory students

5-yeai increase in full-time enrollment
5-year increase in dormitory students

44%
61%

PERMANENT DORMITORY
HOUSING

Huston Hall

Cedar Hill*

Rader Hall

Long Dorm

Arnold HaU

House 3 (Maranatha)

Kermitage

407

AUXILIARY HOUSING
AVAILABLE

Chapel apts.

Rented off-campus house

Faculty homes

Bryan Village*

20
14
93

135

542

The continuing enrollment growth
pattern of the college makes an
additional dormitory a practical
necessity. The accompanying charts
show that while the overall enrollment
has grown 41% since 1971, the dormi-
tory enrollment has increased by 61%.
To meet the continuing need for hous-
ing since Arnold Hall for women was
occupied in early 1972, the college has

(1) leased an apartment house in
Dayton, two miles from the campus,

(2) taken over for single students
Bryan VUlage, used since I960 for
married students, (3) arranged with
several faculty to house students, and
(4) bought a small apartment Duilding
near the campus and renovated it for
20 men students. Cedar Hill, used
previously for both single and married
students' housing, has now been given
over entirely to single students. All
this fragmentation in housing adds up
to the need for an additional
dormitory on campus.

Plans for a 172-bed building have
been completed and are awaiting
developments which will allow con-
struction to begin. The cost is esti-
mated at $7,000 per bed for a total of
$1,200,000, and this presents an im-
passe in financing. The three major
dormitories on campus were built with

3% and 3'/2% loans, which are no
longer available. The present market
both for loans and bonds is such that
no satisfactory amortization plan
based on anticipated revenue can be
developed.

A preliminary inquiry of a select
group of college supporters indicates a
potential for a sizable sale of bonds,
but as indicated, the revenue from the
operation of a new buUding cannot
support a construction plan predicated
entirely on financing from loans and
bonds. Further, the urgent necessity of
completing the fund raising for the
Rudd Memorial Chapel, as set forth
elsewhere in this issue, precludes any
general campaign among the con-
stituency of the college at this time for
a dormitory.

I am quite persuaded in my own
mind that God in His providence will
give Bryan this building at the right
time; nevertheless, we wrestle with the
problem of whether to limit Bryan's
enrollment next year or where to put
the students should we have another
increase. I commend this project and
the problems as we understand them
to your prayerful consideration. Your
comments will be welcome.

Theodore C. Mercer

31 apartment units formerly used by
married students

WINTER 1976

Rudd Memorial Chape

RUDD MEMORIAL FACILITIES

Ground Floor

Three classrooms

Band room

Band office

Choir room

Choir office

Choir robing room

Fellowship hall-auditoYium, seating

capacity of 325
Kitchen
Four practice rooms

Main Floor

Auditorium with seating capacity of 805
Performing stage area with seating

capacity of 200
Prayer chapel with seating capacity of

Mezzanine Level

Fine Aits Division office

Music Library

Five studio-offices

Balcony with seating capacity of 36

Future balcony with seating capacity of
332*
* Initially the balcony will be divided into
classroom and office space through the use
of temporary partitions. These partitions
can be removed as emoUment necessitates.

BRYAN LIFE

Construction Progresses

God's special blessing reflected in the beautiful summer-like weather continuing
long into the fall has made possible excellent progress on the Rudd Memorial
Chapel. To date the ground floor is partitioned, a fact which makes the band and
choir rooms, the fellowship hall, and the music practice rooms all very recognizable.
The gigantic beams which wUl support the roof of the auditorium are all in place.
Smaller crossbeams and supports are being placed each day, and soon the roof will
be completed. Partitions now identify the lobby and the prayer chapel near the
main entrance.

With the buUding taking shape so rapidly, committees are busy working on the
interior-decorating scheme. It has been generally established that soft gold tones in
the carpet and wall decor will be used predominantly in the auditorium. The
committee is considering red upholstery for the opera-type seats or red tone for the
stage fore-curtain, which combined with the gold tones would carry out the college
colors of scarlet and gold. For the music facilities on the ground floor, the color
choice features avocado-colored carpet with accents in complementary greens and
golds.

The sacrificial gifts of the Bryan College friends have brought the total in
pledges and cash to 5656,000. Of this total, S41 1,000 has been paid in cash. The
pledges yet to be paid include the 550,000 Kfesge challenge grant previously
announced.

.'^bove this current total of 5656,000, the sum of 5144,000 must be secured to
meet the fund-raising goal of 5800,000 for the cost of the basic building plus an
additional estimated 5200,000 to equip and furnish the building for use. With
construction proceeding on schedule, it is hoped that payments on pledges will be
accelerated whenever possible in order that the requirements for a continuing flow
of cash can be met. This entire project is commended to all interested friends for
their prayer support.

Still available are memorial opportunities, which include auditorium seating,
classroom and office furnishings, the organ for the auditorium, and pianos for the
music studios. For gifts of S500 not designated for a specific memorial, the name of
a single donor wQl be placed on a bronze memorial plaque in the lobby. Two names
can be placed on a plaque for a gift of 51,000. Your inquiries for memorial possi-
bilities are welcome, and correspondence should be directed to Dr. John B. Bartlett,
vice president of the college.

Main entranceway begins to take shape

Workmen continue to lay
massive ceiling beams

brick unaer tne

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Ceiling planks are nailed in place

June

October

July

November

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Campus
Review

\Honorary alumni Dr. and Mrs. T. C. Mercer with Alumni Association
president Ralph Green.

HOMECOMING

The warm handclasps of alumni
greeting one another for the first time
in many years, the nip-and-tuck rivalry
of the Bryan-Covenant soccer game,
and the patriotic homecoming ban-
quet—all contributed to an exciting
weekend of homecoming festivities.

More than 250 alumni and friends
of present students were registered on
campus during the first weekend of
October. The early arrivals include
Chuck '62 and Sandy '63 Westgate
from MontoursvOle, Pa., and Gayle '58
and Charlene '58 Ryle from Wilming-
ton, Del., who brought a total of
sixteen highschool student visitors
from their churches.

The Friday night ice-cream social
repeated last year's event by bringing
the alumni together with faculty and
staff in the Lions Den, where they
consumed several gaDons of home-
made ice cream and many dozens of
homemade cookies as they chatted
over old times.

After Saturday's outdoor luncheon
between the little white chapel and the
big new one in progress, a campus tour
for alumni to see the new facilities
added since they were students plus a
guided inspection tour of the Rudd
Chapel under construction kept the
visitors occupied even during the first
minutes of the alumni-junior vaisity
soccer game, which ended in a 2-2 tie.

As the Bryan Lions met the
Covenant Scots for the homecoming
soccer match, the spectators viewed
the year's most exciting home game
with the rise and fall of hopes as two
scores were counted— one for each

side— to end the double overtime
game in a well-matched tie.

The beauty of the fall scenery on
campus was enhanced by the parade of
homecoming floats with honors to the
class of 1977 (which has won three
successive years) and the formal intro-
duction at half time of the home-
coming queen, Rachael Cowen, from
Lake Butler, Fla., and her court, who
were also presented at the banquet.

Homecoming queen, Rachael Cowen, Lake
Butler, Fla., senior, with escort Lee
Samples, sophomore. West Palm Beach, Fla.

Other highlights of the homecom-
ing banquet included the brief remarks
of alumnus Gayle Ryle, pastor of the
Bethel Baptist Church, Wilmington,
Del., and the awarding of alumni
honors. With citation plaques present-
ed by alumni president Ralph Green
'56, four new members were added to
the roUs of honorary alumni: President
and Mrs. Theodore Mercer, for twenty
years of service; Dr. J. Wesley
McKinney, Memphis, Tenn.,
ophthalmologist, for service as a
trustee since 1950 and chairman since
1969; and Miss Ruth Huston-

Miss Ruth Huston
author, Bible teacher, and Christian
worker for many years in southeastern
Kentucky— for service as trustee
since 1959.

Special recognition was given to the
35th anniversary class of 1940, which
had five of its sixteen graduates pre-
sent-Connie Penick Ford, Eileen
Garwood Fuss, Lillian Hummel
Levengood, Rebecca Peck, and Ruth
Toliver Wright. Other guests included
members of the Board of Trustees and
members of the National Advisory

BRYAN LIFE

Council who had their first meeting at
Bryan on homecoming weekend and
shared a spiritual highlight at the Sun-
day afternoon vesper service of choir
and madrigal music, vocal solos by
Judy Barth '57, and readings by Dr.
John Bartlett.

The chief honoree of the evening
was Dr. Clyde Simmons '49, whose

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achievements as elementary teacher
and principal over twenty-five years in
the Chattanooga school system, whose
acquisition of the doctor of education
degree from George Peabody College
for Teachers this year, and whose loyal
support of the alumni program for
twenty-six years earned for him the
title of 1975 Alumnus of the Year.

NATIONAL SCIENCE
FOUNDATION GRANT

A two-year matching grant of
$6,200 has been awarded to the
chemistry department by the National
Science Foundation for the purchase
of equipment to strengthen the teach-
ing of chemistry. An ultraviolet-visible
spectrophotometer (UVS) was de-

Dr. Grieser demonstrates the new ultra-
violet-visible spectrophotometer to Viet-
namese student, Joseph Quang Chu, a
sophomore chemistry major and lab
assistant

livered and installed in November as
the first of three scientific instruments
to be purchased under the NSF grant.
The UVS will be used by faculty and
students in the science division to
analyze the structure of chemical com-
pounds. The instrument utilizes both
ultraviolet and visible light in respond-
ing to structure-dependent charac-
teristics of molecules. Dr. Merlin

Grieser is head of the chemistry de-
partment, and Dr. Richard Barnhart is
chairman of the division of natural
sciences.

MISSIONARY CONFERENCE

"Our Changing but Unfinished
Task" win be the theme of the
missionary conference, January 7-9,
1976. This conference, which opens
the second semester, is held in alter-
nating years with a conference on the
Christian life and the Christian's per-
sonal witness. The two main speakers
are author and missionary Jim Mont-
gomery, of Overseas Crusade, from the
Philippines, and Pastor Marvin
Lubenow, of the First Baptist Church,
Wayne, Mich.

Jim Montgomery and Rev. Marvin Lubeno

Twenty-one societies have been in-
vited to participate through displays,
symposia, and counseling with stu-
dents. These societies include Am-
bassadors for Christ (USA), American
Missionary Fellowship, Baptist Mid-
Missions, Board of Global Ministries of
the United Methodist Church, Brazil
Gospel Fellowship, Campus Crusade
for Christ, Conservative Baptist
Foreign Mission Society, Greater
Europe Mission, Hope Aglow Minis-
tries, International Missions, Inter-
national Students, Mission to the
World of the Presbyterian Church in
America, North Africa Mission, Over-
seas Missionary Fellowship, Slavic
Gospel Association, Southern Baptist
Convention Foreign Mission Board,
Sudan Interior Mission, The Evangeli-
cal Alliance Mission, the Worldwide
Evangelization Crusade, Wycliffe Bible
Translators, and Youth for Christ.

WHERE THEY CAME FROM

The full-time student enrollment
first semester represented 37 states
and 20 foreign countries. Tennessee, as
it has for many years, led with 103
students. Cosmopolitan Florida con-
tinued securely in second place with
71, followed by Georgia with 43,
Michigan with 42, North Carolina with
36, Virginia with 30, Ohio and Penn-
sylvania with 27 each, and Illinois with
25.

Other states and their representa-
tions are the following:

Alabama, Maryland, each 1 2

West Virginia 1 1

Indiana, South Carolina, each 1
Iowa, New Jersey, Texas,

each 9
California, Minnesota, New

York, Wisconsin, each 8

Louisiana 7

Kentucky 6

Colorado, Delaware, each 5

Kansas, Mississippi, each 4

Arizona 3
Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,

each 2

Arkansas, North Dakota, Ver-
mont, Washington, each 1

Twelve international students
represented the following 11
countries: Bermuda, Brazil, Finland,
Honduras (2), Jamaica, Kenya, Nether-
lands Antilles, Nigeria, Surinam,
Switzerland, and Vietnam. In addition,
23 American nationals, some with dual
citizenship, represented 10 foreign
countries, with Brazil, also listed
above, claiming 8 of these representa-
tives. The unduplicated foreign
countries are as follows: Canada,
Ecuador (5), Ethiopia (2), Haiti, Hong
Kong, India, Indonesia, Peru, and
Rhodesia (2).

CHRISTMAS BANQUET

One of Bryan's oldest traditions,
the annual Christmas banquet, was
held on December 13 with an overflow
crowd of students, faculty, trustees,
and friends from the area. The theme
of the evening was "An old-fashioned
Christmas" Dr. J. Fred Johnson,

Dr. J. Fred Johnson
pastor of Chattanooga's First Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church since 1933
and the dean of active Chattanooga
pastors, was the speaker. Dr. Johnson's

NTER 1976

grandson Wesley is attending Bryan on
a four-year scholarship which he re-
ceived from Provident Life Insurance
Company of Chattanooga for being
named the Chattanooga-area
"Christian Athlete of the Year" in
1974-75.

CHAPEL NOTES

Among those coming to the cam-
pus to speak at chapel each year are
Bryan alumni. Representative of these
alumni chapel speakers the first semes-
ter was Rev. Jerry Day '60, pastor of

HOW TO
LOSE POUNDS

Practical Christian Involvement
(PCI) sponsored a recent "pound"
drive to collect canned goods for
Cedine Bible Institute in nearby Spring
City. Each class was called upon and
challenged in a contest to contribute a
record amount of goods. The freshman
class was awarded a trophy for having
contributed the largest amount— 457
pounds. The junior class was next with
409, followed by the sophomores with
147, and the seniors with 86, for a
grand total of 1,099 pounds.

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Rev. and Mrs. Jerry Day with daughter,
Debbie, and Mike Marvin

Berean Bible Church, Columbus, Ind.
Father of Debbie Day and pastor of
Mike Marvin, members of the fresh-
man class, Mr. Day used I Thess.
5:14-24 in speaking on the subject
"How to Backslide at Bryan College."
Pointing out that not the obvious, glar-
ing sins, but the small, least-suspected
ones most often lead to spiritual cold-
ness and broken fellowship with the
Lord, he outlined six sins which can
beset a Christian college student:

1. Allowing required Bible courses
and chapel programs to replace
personal daily Bible readings

2. Allowing school prayer meetings
to replace the maintaining of a
definite time for daily prayer

3. Doing Christian service only be-
cause it is required

4. Resenting and rebelling against
authority

5. Complaining and griping con-
stantly

6. Holding a grudge against some-
one

Conclusion: Confess these things as
sins when they occur in order that
fellowship with God may be re-
stored.

FALL TRUSTEE
MEETING

At its October meeting the board
of trustees met with representatives of
the National Advisory Council, estab-
lished to provide the board of trustees
and the president with opportunity for
consultation on specific needs of the
college for critical decision-making.
Eight of the 32 members, plus five
spouses, of the NAC participated. The
Council includes twelve Bryan alumni
and members from thirteen states,
Canada, Mexico, and the PhOippines.
Among them are pastors, evangelists,
editors, professors, missionaries, an
attorney, an insurance executive, and
heads of a variety of Christian organi-
zations.

Actions of the board included
adoption of an operating budget for
the current year of $2,000,000,
deferring of further action on a new
dormitory awaiting further develop-
ments, and increasing charges to stu-
dents for the 1976-77 school year by
$250, raising the basic charge for room
and board next year to $3090. Dr. J.
Wesley McKinney, Memphis ophthal-

Dr. J. Wesley McKinney

mologist, who has been a member of
the board since 1950 and chairman
since 1969, presided over the sessions
attended by 22 trustees.

The BIBLE:
Book or Artifact?

Train your eyes to read carefully. It
is very true today that there is much
crooked thinking because there is
much crooked seeing.

Read repeatedly. Return often to
the beginning of the passage. One
thrust of the spade does not unearth
all the gems of the Bible's mine. Don't
ever conclude that you have exhausted
the meaning of a verse when it be-
comes familiar to you. John Bunyan
said that "old truths are always new to
us if they come to us with the smell of
Heaven upon them."

Read peripherally. Peripheral vision
is seeing the surroundings while the
eye is focused straight ahead. Good
auto drivers and football quarterbacks
must have excellent peripheral vision.
So in Bible study you should keep
your eyes open to the surrounding
context of the words you are reading.
This can be one of the best single
study aids -in -understanding the pas-
sage.

Reflection

When God speaks to us, we should
stand still and consider what He is say-
ing. In Bible reading, reflection is the
mind and heart at work, thinking over
what the eyes have seen. That is quite
different from merely seeing with the
eye, which is what someone has
labelled "retinizing." Reflection in
Bible reading should have the intensity
of meditation, whereby the soul has
the desire and intention of obeying
God's Word. "Thou shall meditate
therein day and night, that thou
mayest observe to do according to all
that is written therein" (Joshua 1:8).

How should we reflect on the
Scriptures? Here are some suggestions:

Reflect purposefully. The psalmist
had a purpose in hiding God's Word in
his heart: that he might not sin against
God (Ps: 119:11). The Berean
Christians had a purpose in examining
the Scriptures daily: that they might
know the truth (Acts 17:11).

What are your purposes as you
meditate on the Scriptures? Do you
want to know God more intimately
and glorify Him? Do you want to
know more about yourself? Do you
want to grow strong spiritually? Do
you want to know God's will, hear a
word of comfort, receive a challenge?
Then reflect purposefully!

Reflect imaginatively. This is not
difficult, if you are willing to put
yourself into the situation of the Bible
passage. Taste and feel every word you
read. The great translator. Miles
Coverdale, wrote to a friend once,
"Now I begyne to taste of Holy
Schryptures; now (honour be to God)
I am sett to the most swete smell of
holy lettyres.

Something is bound to stir within
your soul the moment you begin to
reflect imaginatively as you read the
Bible.

Reflect humbly. The Word you are
reading is the holy Word of the holy
God. God is bigger than His Book. As
someone has said, "Behind and be-
neath the Bible, above and beyond the
Bible, is the God of the Bible." It
should humble you to think that this
Holy One, who is also the Almighty
One, has spoken to you in the Bible,
and has given you the blessed privilege
to read it, and so to listen to Him.

When you open your Bible to read
it and reflect on it, remember that this

is The Holy Bible, a title given to no
other book in the world.

Reflect prayerfully. If you reflect
humbly, you will reflect prayerfully,
for the contrite heart craves to speak
to the One on whom it depends. The
greatest prayer ever prayed by a man
in connection with the Scriptures is
the 119th Psalm. Study this psalm
carefully to learn how to reflect
prayerfully on the Word. One example
is cited here: "Open thou mine eyes,
that I may behold wondrous things
out of thy law" (Ps. 119:18).

Reflect Patiently. Patience in any
phase of life is priceless. The great
naturalist Fabre always referred to his
two best instruments as "time" and
"patience."

The New Testament makes many
references to the gem of Christian
patience. Patience is surely a require-
ment in the meditative process of
reading God's Word. In fact the phrase
"wait on the Lord" can be applied to
meditation. Reflection requires time
and concentration, and the good Bible

student will give both.
* * *

THE BIBLE was written to be used.
An unread Bible is like food that is
refused, an unopened love letter, a
buried sword, a road map not studied,
a gold mine not worked. It has been
aptly said, "A book is a book only
when it is in the hands of a reader; the
rest of the time it is an artifact." If
you have been neglecting reading your
Bible determine now to make Bible
reading a vital part of your life.

From Enjoy Your Bible, pages 28-39
(abridged).

WINTER 1976

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SPOTLIGHTING SPORTS By Jeff Tubbs, Sports Information Director

NCCAA Title Winners

Bryan's national championship cross-country team shows off its
banner and many trophies.

Bryan's national championship soccer team is "lookint; up" after a
victorious season.

Bryan became the first Christian
college in the National Christian Col-
lege Athletic Association, an eight-
year-old national organization of ap-
proximately one hundred evangelical
Christian colleges representing all
geographical sections of the United
States, to win two national champion-
ships in the same season. Bryan accom-
plished this feat in the same week. The
cross-country team, under the
direction of Jake Matthes, won the
NCCAA title on November 8 in
Winona Lake, Indiana, and the soccer
team, coached by John Reeser, took
national honors on November 15 in
Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Cross-country

A total of 15 teams, representing
many sections of America, partici-
pated in the cross-country race.
Eastern Mennonite of Harrisonburg,
Virginia, finished second, followed by
Cedarville (O.), Geneva (Pa.), Judson
(111.), Messiah (Pa.), Baptist Bible (Pa.),
Lee (Tenn.), King's (N.Y.), Grace
(Ind.), St. Paul Bible (Minn.), Grand
Rapids Baptist (Mich.), Olivet
Nazarene (Ind.), Berkshire (Mass.), and
Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.). The win
was even more impressive because
EMC had been undefeated in the
regular season, having won 12 times,
and had captured the state champion-
ship of Virginia.

As he did during the season,
Bryan's Tom Potter from Lansing,
Michigan, led the team to the title. His
finish in 6th place, along with 16th by
Mike Wood of RoanoKe, Va., 14th by

Eric Clarke of Miami Springs, Fla.,
1 7th by Tommy Lane of Trenton, Ga.,
and 37th by Chris Batten of Hunting-
ton, W. Va., made the win possible.

The team's final dual record for the
season was 13-2. Cumberland College,
an NAIA power, inflicted the only two
defeats on Bryan. The Lions also took
first place in both the Fisk Invitational
and the Southern Christian Athletic
Conference meets. The SCAC crown
marked the second consecutive year
the Lions have won that title. Other
honors were a third-place finish in the
Southern States Invitational at Cum-
berland, Kentucky, and a fourth-place
finish in the Tennessee State meet.

Coach Matthes was named both
SCAC and NCCAA Coach of the Year.
Under his leadership Bryan has not
lost a SCAC meet in two years. The
championship team will lose three
seniors-Potter, Hatten, and Dave
Maynard of Louisville, Ky.— but
should be strong again in 1976 with
nine regulars expected to return.

Soccer

The soccer team had to battle for
its life before nailing down the
national title. A 2-1, four-overtime
victory over Eastern Mennonite in the
semi-final contest was the longest
game in the history of the college. A
2-1 victory in the championship event
over Judson College the next day
enabled the Lions to claim number-
one billing. Chuck Grant of Canton,
Ohio, was named Most Valuable Player
of the tournament and. along with
Dave Beaty of Memphis, Tenn., and

named to the All-Tournament team.
The victories were especially sweet
since Bryan had finished third in the
same tournament in 1974. Their goal,
to be number one in 1975, was
realized as each player gave 150%
down the stretch and the Lions won
their last five games. Just prior to the
national tournament, Bryan hosted
and won the Tennessee Intercollegiate
Soccer Association tournament,
shutting out both its opponents.

The final season record of 13-4-1
was accomplished in spite of the fact
that the squad was hit hard by injuries.
Ngugi Githuka of Limuru, Kenya, led
the Lions in scoring this fall with eight
goals and four assists, good for a total
of 12 points. Mastin Robeson of
Chester, S.C., was next -with seven
goals and three assists, totaling 10.
Steve Beaty of Memphis led Bryan in
assists with seven.

In a rare honor, the soccer officials
of the southern region voted to give
the annual sportsmanship award to the
entire Bryan team. Usually the award
is given to an individual player.

Nine seniors are members of this
year's team. In addition to Grant,
Miller, Beaty, and Robeson, other
senior members of the Lions of 1975
are John Lacey of Phoenix, Ariz.; Ken
Baker of Orlando, Fla.: Randy Ballard
of Trenton, Ga.; Biff Quarles of Port
St. Joe, Fla.; and Tim Faugl of Aiken,
S.C.

These two national championships
have made this the most outstanding
season ever in the history of fall sports
at Bryan.

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Men's Basketball

A 22-game regular season schedule
faces the Bryan basketball Lions in
1975-76. The team is also entered in
three tournaments- the Grace Col-
lege (Ind.) Thanksgiving tourney, the
Lenoir City (Tenn.) Classic, and the
post-season Southern Christian
Athletic Conference playoffs.

Coach Wayne Dixon has eight re-
turning lettermen. which include
starters Dan Begley of Hazard, Ky.;
Jerry Cline of Mansfield, O.; Mike

Eldridge of Red Bank Tenn.; Mike Hall
of Dayton. Tenn.; and Mike Hathaway
of .^sheville, N.C. Don Blaton of Vir-
ginia Beach, Va.; Quentin Crabtree of
Henager, Ala.; and Mike Buckley of
Hollywood, Fla., are the other return-
ing lettermen. The addition of fresh-
men and transfers should help the
Lions to improve their 1974-75
record. The current season's record
until Christmas shows 5-7 against 2-12
this time last year.

Cross-country coacli. Jack Matthcs. left, and soccer coach. John Reeser. center, proudly slww
their national cliauipionship trophies to Boh Andrews, dean of men and assistant soccer coacli.

Tom Potter, of Lansing, Mich.._ Bryan's
record-setting cross-country star spurts
across the finish line.

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These are the three seniors on Bryan's national championship cross-country team. Left to riglit:
Chris Hatten, Huntington. It'. Va.; Dave Maynard, Louisville. Kv.: and Tom Potter. Lansing.
Mich.

These are the nine seniors on Bryan's
national championship soccer team.
Pictured from left to right, bottom to top.
Tim Faugl. .Aiken, S.C.: Mastin Robeson,
Chester. S.C; Roddy Miller, Columbia. S.C:
Ken Baker, Orlando, Fla.: Chuck Grant.
Canton, Ohio: Randy Ballard, Trenton, Ga.;
David Beaty, Memphis, Tenn.: Biff Quarles.
Port St. Joe. Fla.: Paul Shaver. Manager.
Zanesville. Ohio. Not pictured is John
Lacev. Phoenix. .Ariz.

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Volume 1

Spring 1976

i
Number ;

OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE: Our liberties as individuals have their foundation
in Christian faith. By Dr. Robert W. Spoede

ROGER WILLIAMS: Pioneer of American Freedom: Worship of God according to
the dictates of one's own conscience is of utmost importance to all of us. By Dr.
John W. Reed

THE BIBLE AND MORAL VALUES: Where do we really get our concept of that (
which makes a thing right or wrong? By Dr. Ted Ward

A PHILOSOPHY OF STEWARDSHIP: Insight is given here as to the development
of a truly Christian view of giving. By Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bennett.

CAMPUS REVIEW: A bird's-eye view of campus activities, faculty happenings and H

news of interest.

RUDD CHAPEL PROGRESS: An updated report on the construction of Rudd 1'
Chapel. Pictures.

SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS: Featuring the men's and women's basketball teams. By 1<
Jeff Tubbs.

BRYAN CELEBRATES BICENTENNIAL

This issue of Bryan Life is our Bryan College salute to the'
bicentennial. Consistent with the philosophy of the Rhea
County American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the
college commemoration is in the context of utilizing the
opportunities that come naturally in the calendar and in the
flow of campus activities rather than of creating some kind
of busywork program of events. Professor William
Ketchersid, chairman of the division of history, social
studies, and business, heads the college-wide committee ot

faculty, students, and staff to serve as a focal point of coordination.

At the personal level there are three things I should like to recommend to make the

celebration come alive personally for you.

1. Make it a point to learn something new about the history of the place where you;
live. Every place is interesting if you just make the effort to learn about its past and get to
know the people. With such knowledge comes the concomitant of belonging, an impor-
tant counteraction to the rootlessness and fragmentation widely recognized as one of the
negative characteristics of current Ufe.

2. Read, read, read! Although it is certainly true that the bicentennial is being over-'
commercialized and that much that is being offered, both in writing as well as in com-
memorative objects, is vacuous and gimmicky, there is also available a steady stream of
the worthwhile. Don't pass by an unparalleled opportunity to learn and understand more
fully our national history in order that you can be a more effective evaluator and voter inj
this election year. |

3. Remember to pray "for all that are in authority." As I Timothy 2: 1-2 indicates,;
prayer is commanded not because these rulers are necessarily great or good or because:
they are Christians but because it is recognized that law, government, and order are God's
plan for human society and that a reasonable degree of peace and prosperity is necessary
to foster the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Christian has an equal responsibilityi
to render to Caesar as well as to God, and there is no ultimate conflict when it is kept in
mind that the ultimate goal of all human history as expressed by Paul in Ephesians is
God's purpose to "gather together in one all things in Christ."

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Theodore C. Mercer

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OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE

A HISTORY PROFESSOR'S VIEW

by Dr. Robert W. Spoede

Just what is the Christian heritage
of America? How does a Christian and
historian respond to that question?
There are many mistaken conceptions
and inaccuracies in the minds not only
of evangelical Christians but also of the
general run of Americans concerning
our early history. Most Americans
are startled to have it pointed out to
them that the time span between the
settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, and
the war begun in 1775 is almost as
great as that from the Revolutionary
War to the present. Other than the
general temper of the times there was
little or nothing of Christian motives
in the initial settlement in Jamestown
in 1607. If we call the roll of the
original thirteen states and seek to dis-
cover the purpose of their settlement,
we discover that the founding of only
four can be attributed to distinctly
Christian purposes. Those four are
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connect-
icut, and Pennsylvania.

But what of the "founding
fathers," those "young men of the
Revolution"? Except for possibly one
or two of the signers of the Declara-
tion of Independence, there is little
evidence to be found that any were
"evangelical" Christians in the modern
sense of that phrase. Certainly a
modern Christian with sound doctrine
would not consider that these had
arisen to heights of Christian perfec-
tion.

If we discard these oversimplifica-
tions of the "Christian heritage of
America," do we have nothing left? By
no means, for there is a Christian heri-
tage in America. But like American
government it stems from the people
■and not from great leaders.

What are many Christians for-
getting concerning America's Christian
heritage? In answer to this question, it
would be good for most to refresh
themselves on the impact of the
"Great Awakening," the first and the
fieriest of the great revivals in
American history. When asked, many
sound American pastors will identify
Jonathan Edwards as simply another
"hell-fire and brimstone" preacher of
the period between 1730 to 1750 and
not as one of the great intellects of our
nation's past, an intellect that was
devoted to the service of his Saviour.
Most Americans are not aware that his-
torians accept the fact that probably

one-third of the population of the
colonies had a Christian experience in
the period between 1740 and 1745
under the ministry of George White-
field, the .Tennents, Samuel Davies,
and others. The contribution is a hvely
subject of discussion in learned histori-
cal circles, a discussion that is, at pre-
sent, best left for other times.

But the importance of the Christian
faith to those freedoms and liberties
that we as Americans hold most dear
was pointed out in its most succinct
form by a young French observer.
Alexis de Tocqueville came to the
United States in 1832 to seek out the
answer as to why democracy was suc-
ceeding in America after it had failed
to succeed at least twice in his native
France. The young Frenchman took
distinct note not only of the differ-
ences between the "sects" (as he called
the Protestant denominations) but also
of the similarity in their requirements
for the outward manifestation of the
Christian faith. Tocqueville honestly
faced the fact that many Americans in
1832 "pursue a peculiar form of wor-
ship, from habit more than convic-
tion." In the America of the nine-
teenth century, this European observer
noted that "Christianity, therefore,
reigns without any obstacle, by uni-
versal consent; the consequence is, as I
have before observed, that every prin-
ciple of the moral world is fixed and
determinate, although the political
world is abandoned to the debates and
and the experiments of men." In
Tocqueville's view, although the
Christian faith took no direct part in
the government, it had to be regarded
as "the foremost of the political insti-
tutions of the country."

Tocqueville did not presume to
determine the depth of the faith of the
Americans— "for who can search the
human heart?"— but he did feel that he
could observe its working in the social
fabric of America. This perceptive
observer, who to this day is credited
by scholars with making the most
acute survey of American society that
has yet been done, noted that the
actions of American businessmen, poli-
ticians, and social commentators were
limited by the universal acceptance of
the Christian ethic.

If we turn from Tocqueville to a
more modern social observer,
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, who writes
of the impact of religion on the

Russian people, we can observe a cen-
tral theme. Solzhenitsyn seeks to ex-
plain why Russia as it existed in 1917
at the Communist revolution could
not have become a "democratic"
country immediately. In his open let-
ter to the Soviet leaders following his
expulsion from Russia, this great
Russian writer notes that the Russian
faith had been an authoritative faith
that had corresponded to an authorita-
tive political regime, which neverthe-
less had softened the effect of that
regime. Solzhenitsyn thus notes the in-
ter-relationship between the faith of a
people and its social and political insti-
tutions.

Thus America's freedoms have been
guarded in the past by the restrictions
on the individual imposed by the
Christian faith. To live in an ordered
society, people must be restricted. The
restrictions may come from within and
may be compelled by "doing all to the
glory of God," or they may come
from without by government enforce-
ment. In totalitarian states these re-
strictions come from the outside, en-
forced on the people by the govern-
ment. In a land that grants individual
liberties, there must be a correspond-
ing sense of responsibility imposed by
some agency that looks upon the heart
as well as upon the actions of man.

In this Bicentennial Year I would
hope that we can seek to preserve that
most precious heritage of our fore-
fathers, our personal liberties, by
bringing American society back to fac-
ing its responsibilities as individuals to
our Saviour. Thus the greatest patri-
otic action for the future is evangeliza-
tion, or bringing the American citi-
zenry back into a proper relation-
ship—as individuals— with their God.

Dr. Robert W.
Spoede, associate
professor of history,
joined the Bryan
faculty in 1973
after a twenty-year
career in the mili-
tary. A native
Texan, he earned his undergraduate degree
at Texas A&M, his master's at Hardin-
Simmons University, and the Ph.D., with a
specialization in early American history, at
William and Mary. In April, Dr. Spoede will
participate in a conference on "The Ameri-
can Revolution and Scotland " at Old
Dominion University.

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ROGER WILLIAMS:

Pioneer of American Freedom

by Dr. John W. Reed

In our Amerian bicentennial cele-
bration this year, 1976, we are placing
the main emphasis on the past two
hundred years of our history. At times
it is helpful to remember also our
Colonial roots and those influences
that led to the events of 1776. Many
overlook the fact that during the first
fifty years of Colonial experience
there developed in New England a
Colony and a political philosophy that
eventually became the American way.
The writings of Roger Williams outline
an amazingly accurate, prophetic pic-
ture of what the American came to
think and be. The Providence Colony
was governed by principles that be-
came the essential elements of our
democratic system.

New England Beginnings
Roger and Mary Williams came to
America in 1631. His reputation as a
young Cambridge graduate who was a
gifted preacher made him very attrac-
tive to the Puritan church in Boston.
Here he was offered the choice posi-
tion of teacher. Had he accepted, he
would have been the most influential
person in the new world. He interview-
ed the officials of the Boston church,
but flatly refused the position. In his
opinion they were an "unseparated"
people. They were still vitally connect-
ed with the mother church in England.
In the remoteness of the new world,
they could manage their affairs as they
wished; therefore they saw no need for
full separation. Williams went to Salem
for a while, but left to be with the
separatist people of Plymouth. He
preached regularly in the Plymouth
church, farmed, set up a trading post,
and learned the language of the
Indians.

Williams became a trusted friend of
the Indians. He wrote an inflammatory
Treatise concerning what he felt to be

the King's lack of authority over
Indian lands. The General Court of
Massachusetts threatened reprisals if
he did not withdraw the tract.
Williams submitted and soon returned
to Salem as teacher. His preaching was
often radical. He continued to
champion Indian rights. He declared
that the magistrates had no right to
demand that unregenerate men swear
oaths of allegiance to the Bay Colony
in the name of God. Such acts were, to
Williams, a forcing of worship that was
a stench in the nostrils of God.

His constant irritation of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony magistrates
led to an open debate before the
General Court. No opinions were
changed. The magistrates were inflexi-
ble. John Cotton, who had taken the
position in Boston that had been
offered to Williams, had emerged as
the Puritan leader. In his opinion
Williams was sinning against his own
conscience by refusing to submit .to
Bay Colony interpretations of the
Bible. The decree of banishment was
read to WUliams, and he was told that
he could remain in New England until
spring if he would not preach again.
He preached in his home the next
week. When the General Court heard
of his continued preaching, they sent
officers to arrest him and put him on a
ship back to England. Friends warned
Williams of the plan; and though he
was ill, he fled into the wilderness and
lived with the Indians until spring. He
then went to Narragansett Bay, where
he bought land from the Indians and
founded the Providence Colony.

Pioneer in Providence

In the primitive setting of the Prov-
idence plantations, Williams worked,
preached to the Indians, and dreamed
of the day when his silenced voice

could speak again. He exchanged some
letters with the Bay Colony, but the
controversy did not fully develop until
he went to England in 1643 to seek a
charter for his colony. On the trip to
England he wrote a book on Indian
customs and language entitled A Key
into the Language of America. The
book created much interest in Lon-
don. A letter, written by John Cotton
to Williams some time before and de-
fending the banishment proceedings,
appeared in print. Williams published a,
letter in response to Cotton's asser-!
tions.

Thus began one of the earliest of
America's great controversies. Al-
though Williams addressed Cotton as a
primary audience, his writings were al-
so intended for the English Parliament
and the clergy of England and
America. The debate continued
through more than one thousand pages
of Puritan dialectic. Its basic argu-
ments were stated in Williams' most
important work, The Bloudy Tenenti
of Persecution for cause of Con-
science, published in 1643. Williams
returned triumphantly to Providence j
with a Parliamentary Charter in 1644.

John Cotton studied the Bloudy \
Tenent and in 1647 published his re-
buttal, entitled The Tenent, Washed, \
and made white in the bloud of the t
Lambe. He maintained his views vigor-
ously and added more Scripture to his
contentions. I

In 1652 Williams returned to a;
London that was greatly interested in:
liberty of conscience. He met often
with Cromwell, Milton, and other sig-,;
nificant figures. He published his re-[
buttal to Cotton, The Bloudy Tenent]
yet More Bloudy: By Mr. Cottons en-
devour to wash it white in the Bloud ;
of the Lambe. Cotton died in 1652,;
probably before he read Williams' re-

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buttal. In 1654 Williams returned to
America, where he carried on an active
life. Death came to Williams in 1683.

Debating Freedom of Conscience

Almost any attempt to reduce the
massive dialectic of the debate to brief
statements faces the danger of over-
simplification. The rambling argumen-
tation is almost unintelligible to one
who has not studied the forms of dis-
putation taught at Cambridge during
that period. All the major issues were
centered around the interpretation of
Biblical texts and ideas. Both men
were Biblicists who enjoyed the
minutiae of interpretative detail.

Roger Williams' basic proposition
maintained that no man should be per-
secuted by the civil state for worship-
ing God according to the dictates of
his own conscience. Williams thought
that a man should be able to live at
peace with his conscience in a peaceful
society. Since persecution for cause of
conscience was the major cause of dis-
harmony among men, Williams offered
the following conclusions, many of
which have a profoundly contem-
porary sound:

1. His own banishment was proof
that the Bay Colony practiced per-
secution for cause of conscience.

2. The doctrine of persecution for
cause of conscience was not taught
in the Bible by Jesus Christ, Paul,
or other New Testament writers.

3. The Massachusetts Bay Colony
was not the actual restructuring of
the Old Testament nation of Israel
as held by the Boston magistrates.
The Old Testament nation of Israel
was only a type or prophecy that
found its antitype or fulfillment in
the church of the New Testament.
The Bay Colony had no rational
claim for their theocratic form of
government and no precedent for
the rule of the saints.

4. Persecution for cause of con-
science was not a universal practice
of civil states. Other nations existed
and prospered which did not
exercise authority in spiritual
matters.

5. Persecution for cause of con-
science disrupted civil and church
peace. It certainly destroyed the
peace of those people who must
conform or be persecuted.

6. The civil state should be con-
cerned only with civil matters and
leave spiritual matters for the care
of the church. The state should
provide security for those who

assembled to worship so that they
might worship in peace. The civil
authorities should intervene in reli-
gious dissent only when dissenters
disturb the civil peace. Those who
voluntarily dedicate themselves to
religious service should not be re-
strained from performing that
service.

7. The state should insure full
liberty of conscience for all. No re-
ligious heretics, sects, or unbe-
lievers should be persecuted by the
state. The state should not tax the
people to finance the church.

8. The church should regulate and
care for herself. Religious heretics
should be dealt with by the church.
A strong and growing church is the
best way to control the sects.

9. The presence or absence of a
church in a particular community
had no relationship to the civil
peace of the community. Williams
referred to the New Testament city
of Ephesus as possessing a str9ng
cult for the worship of Diana.

There was also a Christian church
and a Jewish synagogue. Any of
these three institutions might be
altered or completely removed
without effect upon the peace of
Ephesus. Allowance of differing
consciences by the civil state was
the undeniable road to peace in
society.

Influence on the
American Tradition

There is no evidence to indicate
that the Bloudy Tenent was read by
the framers of the American Constitu-
tion or of the Bill of Rights. None can
deny, however, the existence of
Williams' writings during that period.
Nor can any deny that the long
shadow of Williams' experiences and
influence had been on the American
conscience for more than one hundred
years. Williams influenced English
leaders and writers during the heat of
his great debate. The close relationship
between Williams' views and those ex-
pressed by John Locke cause some to
feel that Locke must have spent con-
siderable time with the Bloudy
Tenent. Locke in turn had great im-
pact upon those who wrote the Con-
stitution.

In the context of our bicentennial
year, we might do well to reflect on
the thoughts of America's freedom
pioneer. Roger Williams, and thank
God anew for the privilege of worship-
ing according to the dictates of our in-
dividual consciences.

Dr. John W. Reed

Dr. Reed, associate professor
of practical theology at Dallas
Theological Seminary, graduated
from Bryan College in 1951 with
a B.A. degree. Since that time he
earned the B.D. in 1954 from
Grace Theological Seminary, the
M.A. from Bowling Green State
University, and the Ph.D. in
1966 from Ohio State Univer-
sity, majoring in public address
and oral interpretation of litera-
ture. For nine years prior to
going to Dallas, he was professor
of speech and chairman of the
division of language and litera-
ture at Cedarville College.

Adding a special dimension
to Dr. Reed's article is the fact
that he is an eleventh-generation
descendant of Roger Williams
through Mercy Williams, a
daughter, who married Waite
Waterman. Reed's revolutionary
ancestor in this line was Roger
Sheldon (1743-1816) of
Scituate, R. I. Reed indicates
that there are some 16,000 living
descendants of Roger Williams
through his six children.

Dr. Reed contributed two
chapters to the book American
Controversy: A History of
American Public Address, pub-
lished in 1973. His chapters are
entitled "Puritan Paternalism
and Indian Evangelism
1620-1675" and "Church and
State in Massachusetts
1630-1660."

SPRING 1976

Dr. Ted Ward

Dr. Ward has been at Michi-
gan State University for twenty
years, where he is director of the
Values Development Education
Program, established with the
assistance of the Lilly Endow-
ment, and professor of Curricu-
lum Research, assigned to the In-
stitute for International Studies.
His career as an educator has in-
cluded a variety of teaching, re-
search, and administrative roles.
He lectures on many campuses
and for numerous educational
and church-oriented associa-
tions.

Dr. Ward is active in the
development of instructional
materials for the church and
missions. He has engaged exten-
sively in training for cross-
cultural communication. His
writings appear in major en-
cyclopedias, professional
yearbooks and journals, popular
magazines, and religious publica-
tions. Among his more widely
known books is Memo For The
Underground.

The occasion of his visit to
Bryan was to lead the faculty
workshop which opened the sec-
ond semester in January. The
basic thrust of the workshop on
the development of values is fun-
damental to the mission of the
Christian liberal arts coUege.

Teachers, pastors, and parents are
showing a sudden rush of interest in
moral education. Why? Perhaps it was
triggered by Watergate, or maybe it is
a more general concern for the moral
collapse of American life.

No matter what the cause, there
has rarely been such a high level of
activity in the field of moral and ethi-
cal education. What had for genera-
tions become "somebody else's
business" is now becoming every-
body's business again. This time there
is some new hope: research in moral
development is providing some clearer
understandings of what sorts of learn-
ing experiences are likely to be effec-
tive. Perhaps we can cut down on the
useless and compulsive tell-tell-tell
sorts of teaching and really get in-
volved in the valuing process. It will
begin with understanding ourselves
better, then building the sorts of rela-
tionships that allow people to develop
their own value structures. It is clear
now that values are not handed over to
people ready-made.

For the Christian there are two im-
portant questions that demand clear
answers: (1) Where do moral values
come from? (2) How can we help a
person develop moral values? Unlike
the secular society whose answers to
the first question are always relativistic
("It depends on the situation or upon
the particular society's norms"), the
Christian answers that God has reveal-
ed Himself in His creation and His
Word. God is the source. But as the
Apostle Paul reminds us again and
again, God's basic revelation of moral
order is at the level of principle; laws
and rules, even the good models of be-
havior that Christians try to set for
one another, are only a means to an
end. The ultimate source and criterion
of righteousness is God's justice, and

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the motivation to act justly is God's
love. This should be understood in its
Biblical perspective: not every good
act or every correct moral judgment is
made by a Christian. Surely many
morally good judgments and behaviors
exist outside the family of God's re-
deemed community. But we see even
these as ultimately traceable to the
revelations and creative acts of God.
The good things of the creation "fall
on the just and the unjust," including
the knowing of right and wrong. In
Romans 1:20 we read that "since the
creation of the world His invisible at-
tributes. His eternal power and divine
nature have been clearly seen, being
understood through what was made "
(NAS). And in the next chapter Paul
amplifies this truth: "For when
Gentiles who do not have the Law do
instinctively the things of the Law,
these, not having the Law, are a law to
themselves, in that they show the
work of the Law written in their
hearts, their conscience bearing wit-
ness, and their thoughts alternately
accusing or else defending them-
selves " (2: 14,15 NAS).

Our historical preoccupation with
the evQ that is in man may have
blinded us to the marvelous insights
which these texts c'Un bring. What is
this doing good "instinctively," or as
in some other translators' view, a do-
ing "by nature"? Does natural man
have any tendency at all to know and
do righteousness? Should it really sur-
prise us to learn that the research in
moral judgment finds that all people
seem to be capable of developing to
levels of judgment that reflect justice
and love, whether or not they are
"born again"? Have we so easily for-
gotten that the issue of righteousness
of the person in God's sight is much
more than whether or not the person

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xi Moral Values

by led Ward

has done moral good? In theological
perspective, the criterion of standing
before God is in the washing of regen-
eration-the miracle of new birth, re-
deeming the nature that is dead in sin.
It goes far beyond the matter of hav-
ing a moral conscience; Paul says that
even those who have never heard
God's law have that. It goes far be-
yond the matter of behaving consis-
tently with one's moral judgment;
none of us would stand righteous be-
fore God if that were the criterion! So
we need to make a basic distinction
between the sort of moral judgment
and moral action that is visible in the
human (horizontal) plane and can be
shared by all people because of God's
general grace and, on the other matter,
God's absolute washing of the elemen-
tal spirit of man that brings a person
into a walking, talking fellowship with
God (the vertical plane). For this latter
we see the absolute necessity of Jesus
Christ, His death and resurrection; but
for the former we see that God the
creator has left His fingerprints of
good on the very nature of man.

At least one way to read the new
evidence from the research on moral
development sees it remarkably
parallel to Biblical understandings. For
example, the researchers make a clear
distinction between moral judgment
and moral action. Moral judgment is
the making of a decision on the basis
of one's understanding of right and
wrong. Moral action is the doing of
something, carrying out an action that
is right or wrong. ("Moral action" is a
general term used to describe any
action that has a moral content
whether it is right or wrong, good or
bad, moral or immoral.) In Jesus'
teaching He drew attention to this
same distinction between moral judg-
ment and moral action. In the parable

of the man's two sons (Matthew
21:28-31), the first son shows sound
moral judgment and the willingness to
agree to his father's request. The
second son shows a rebellious spirit,
reacting negatively to his father; but
later, realizing the wrongness of his
response, he acts on his moral judg-
ment and goes into the vineyard to
carry out the request of his father.
Jesus poses over this story a question
suggesting that God is concerned
about more than moral judgment; He
is concerned about moral action!

But we should never forget that
God takes no great satisfaction in
actions that have no moral judgment
underneath them. Man was created to
share God's image and, in certain key
points, to share God's nature. "Let us
make man in our image and after our
likeness," said God at the dawning of
the sixth day! And God shared with
mankind this crucial capacity to make
moral choices. He put Adam into a
marvelous situation and burdened him
with but one vital responsibility: to
obey God in one particular. Could
God have done any less and still made
Adam free? The tracing of mankind's
sin to Adam's failure (on the one vital
point of obedience) is a fundamental
point of historical Christian theology.
But in this very point is the implica-
tion that God sees choice, call it judg-
ment or decision-making, as being a
basic responsibility of being human.

How moral judgment and moral
action fit together is important. When
a person does not act on what he
knows to be right, there is a gap be-
tween his moral judgment and his
moral action. This gap represents one
of the ways the Bible defines sin.
"Therefore, to one who knows the
right thing to do and does not do it, to
him it is sin" (James 4: 17 NAS).

It is clear, then, that moral judg-
ment is important, moral action is im-
portant, and closing the gap between
judgment and action is also important.
But what exactly is moral judgment?
Is it simply a matter of knowing all the
right things to do? Those who study
this question today make a very useful
distinction between two aspects of a
moral judgment: its content and its
structure. The content of a moral judg-
ment is the particular "do" or
"don't"; it is the what of the moral
choice— what one sees as the right. The
structure of a moral judgment is its
why: why I do or why I don't value
that particular choice. For example,
"It is wrong to steal" is a statement of
moral content. "I don't steal because I
don't want to get into trouble" tells
you much more— it reveals a strong
clue about the structure of my moral
judgment; apparently my value con-
tent (it's wrong to steal) is held in
place structurally by a fear of getting
into trouble. The fear of punishment is
representative of a structural level of
moral judgment quite normal among
small children but somewhat sad
among adults!

The recent research of Lawrence
Kohlberg of Harvard University has
significantly advanced the scientific
and academic study of values educa-
tion. Kohlberg's key discovery is that
there are three different levels of struc-
ture of value development through
which humans pass. These levels are
entered one by one, in the' same se-
quence for everyone. But Kohlberg
finds that some people never get be-
yond the first level; in fact, relatively
few develop into the third level. The
major characteristic of level I is that
the person sees all the rights and
wrongs as determined by rewards and
punishments. In other words, one's
own ego determines morality, and the

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lightness or wrongness of a particular
judgment develops inside oneself
through a growing awareness of the
consequences for oneself of the moral
action. We all have been in this struc-
tural level as children— it is the first
great dawning of moral accountability.
As a child's perspective develops he
becomes capable of getting "outside
himself" to see other viewpoints. Thus
level II begins as the person comes to
determine right and wrong on the basis
of moral standards from "out there."
In the early stage of level II the be-
havior that pleases mother and daddy
becomes important. Models or
examples of "good" behavior are
recognized and copied. No longer is it
just a matter of "what I want to do."
The person is responsive to an outside
frame of moral reference. This stage of
level II matures into a higher stage in
which one's structural reference, still
"out there," is seen in willing and
eager responsiveness to orderliness
created by law and rule-oriented social
situations. Our national heritage is rich
with the hallowing of this stage of
moral structure: "Ours is a govern-
ment not of men but of laws."

Kohlberg has found yet a higher
level. After passing through Level II, a
relatively small percentage of people
move into a structural level Kohlberg
calls "principled moral reasoning." For
them the issue is not the rules and laws
in themselves, nor the particulars of
good moral examples, but the princi-
ples that underhe the examples, rules,
and laws. How similar this sounds to
Jesus' teaching that the Pharisees, with
their emphasis on law, law, law, were
missing the basic point of God's mercy
and justice: "Go and learn what this
means, I desire compassion and not
sacrifice..." (Matthew 9:13 NAS,
Jesus, citing Hosea 6:6).

Surely Jesus' ministry highlights
the principled level underlying God's
law. "Do not think I have come to
abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did
not come to abolish them but to fulfill
them" (Matthew 5: 17, NIV). Through-
out the Sermon on the Mount He
systematically states and puts Himself
on record supporting one after another
of the commandments, and for each
He adds a principled statement that
broadens the meaning and holds be-
fore us the two basic principles that
later He identifies as the Great Com-
mandments: the principle of man's re-
lationship to God in love and obedient
devotion and the principle of man's
involvement with his fellow man in

love. "All the Law and the Prophets
hang on these two commandments"
(Matthew 22:40 NIV).

The research of Jean Piaget (Swiss
developmental psychologist) gives us
the clearest insight into how a person
moves from level to level as mental
processes develop. Piaget concludes
that development develops: it is not
dependent on somebody's causing it.
Applied to moral development educa-
tion, this means that we must look for
what it is that causes some people not
to develop; Piaget's studies strongly
suggest that the big issue in the moral
development of the child is the en-
vironmental forces that would keep
structural development from oc-
curring. (This really isn't such a
strange conclusion— if moral develop-
ment is akin to cognitive development,
and Piaget, Kohlberg and others agree
that it is; and if cognitive development
is akin to physical development, and
Piaget, Bruner, Gesell and others
agree that it is, we can consider that
there's not much role for human will-
fulness in the general development
process. Will hair not grow if you for-
get to water it? Will the child's baby
teeth not be replaced by "permanent
teeth" if you fail to exhort the child?)
Kohlberg has observed that the quality
of justice in a person's environment
has a strong bearing on his continued
development. Apparently, injustice is
one of the factors that retard or stall
moral development.

From Piaget we also learn that the
major developmental transitions in life
are typically preceded by upheaval in
one's outlook. He calls it "disequUi-
bration," referring to the getting out
of balance when suddenly we come to
realize that the way we have been
looking at things no longer seems ade-
quate for the new problems and con-
cerns of which we have become aware.
At such times, a person's whole frame-
work of ideas undergoes a reorganiza-
tion and after a more or less difficult
time of adjustment becomes "reequili-
brated" at the new developmental
level. In careful studies of many
people over long periods of time, back-
ing up has never been reported. The
direction of development is forward!
(Please remember: we are talking here
of the development of moral judg-
ment. There is plenty of room for
plain old-fashioned backsliding in
what is observed in moral action!)

What does the research suggest
about what should be done to facili-
tate moral development? The major

implications for teachers and parents
are these:

1. Provide a learning and grow-
ing environment in which justice is
central and the participation of
everyone in the striving for justice
is encouraged.

2. Accept the reality of the
levels of moral development.
Children are not miniature adults.
At first they will need the nurture
of rewards and punishments,
handled in a just manner. Then
they will begin to respond to
examples; provide consistent and
sound models and keep your own
behavior constant with the moral
messages you want the chOd to re-
ceive. Develop with children an
orderly use of rules, not as a basis
for punishment but to enhance
confidence and communication by
clarifying the expectations and de-
mands of a just and secure environ-
ment.

3. Develop a relationship with
your children and your students in
which open dialogue and rich ex-
periences are continually shared.
Thus you wiU be ready to be the
needed comfort and encourage-
ment when a youngster reaches a
time of disequOibration. What is
most needed then is one who can
"come alongside" for encourage-
ment and support— one who will
accept the anxieties and doubts of
the transitions in moral judgment
without panic and without criti-
cism. (This recommendation wOf
ring bells for those who have
studied the roles of God the Holy
Spirit!)

Christians tend to be confident in
the source and the content of their
moral judgments. To trust God is to
accept what He has said and done. But
there is more to values development
than content! Most of our problems as
parents and educators relate to the
need to better understand the struc-
ture of moral judgment. We need tc
continue an emphasis on sound con-
tent, but it must be put in a frame-
work of structure that learners car
handle. The Bible is our crucial source
book on what God has said. Science
rightly understood, is our source booi
on what God has made. We need both

Taken from Biblical Issues in Mora
Development by Ted Ward and use(
by permission of the author. Copy
right, 1976, Ted Ward.

BRYAN LIP

\ PHILOSOPHY

OF STEWARDSHIP

Raymond and Margaretta Bennett

After retirement from a successful
:areer as an executive in one of Ohio's
arge industries, Raymond Bennett and
lis wife, Margaretta, moved into a
Deautiful retirement liome sponsored
3y their church denomination, in
3rder to allow them in a much more
;onvenient manner to develop a new,
3ut just as full, program of activities,
rheir involvement in one of Ohio's
lynamic evangelical churches con-
:inues; and Mr. and Mrs. Bennett,
seing avid travelers, spend part of their
ime visiting exciting places all over
he world. Each year they enjoy one
3r two extensive world tours.

To safeguard their concern that the
;state they leave be used in enterprises
)romoting the same beliefs and
tandards upon which their lives have
'een built, the Bennetts recently
idded a codicil to their will, stating
he qualifications which any educa-
ional institution must meet in order
o receive its bequest. Included is a
heological statement requiring that

the institution teach the Scriptures as
the inspired and infallible Word of
God and that the institution's creed in-
clude belief in the virgin birth of our
Lord, the whole Word of God, the
doctrine of the Trinity, and the
necessity of repentance and surrender
to Jesus Christ. Institutions remem-
bered by the Bennetts with bequests
must prohibit the use of drugs and
alcohol and must not permit gambling
or tolerate immorality on campus.
Also institutions must require chapel
and courses in Biblical studies of all
students.

Mr. Bennett's statement of their
personal philosophy of stewardship
follows:

"I like to think of my life as a part-
nership with God. Through this part-
nership and trust in Him, I cannot help
but believe that many of the oppor-
tunities which opened up to me and
the increase in worldly goods given me
had Divine guidance.

"My parents and grandparents instill-
ed in me the desire to live a Christian
life with the tenets of honesty, thrift
and love of fellowmen and to do my
very best toward any task assigned me
with any talent I may possess.

"In my early twenties I was joined
by one of the greatest helpmates one
could desire and through the years we
have enjoyed good health, made many
wonderful friends, and secured a
modest financial

about thirty years ago as our own
church and other charities were
covered we began to give additional
funds to capital items in our church,
Christian colleges and retirement
homes. This has grown over the years
and proven a great satisfaction to us
when we see the joy and happiness
that others continue to derive from it.

"Strange as it may seem, the more
we give or share sacrificially, the more
our estate seems to grow. We feel what
God has entrusted to us is to be used
in a way that might bring honor to His
Kingdom. All we have is a gift from
Him, and it is our desire to use it in
the way it might do the most good for
the most people in a Christian way.

"The satisfaction that this has gen-
erated in our lives prompted us to be-
queath the bulk of our estate to
Christian colleges for capital improve-
ments and student loan funds so that
the advancement of Christendom may
benefit after we leave this life. Even
though we were not privileged to have
had such opportunities ourselves, we
feel that the needs for Christian insti-
tutions and their graduates is a
necessary factor in the protection of
the basic Christian ideals on which our
country was built and prospered.

"Therefore, it is our philosophy of
stewardship that we invest all we can
in the promotion of Christian ideals as
we go through life. Thus we will per-
petuate the preservation of those
ideals on which this great country was
founded and leave in a small way our
imprint on the heritage for future
generations."

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Students gather ari)unJ the exhibits of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship
and Baptist Mid-Missions during the January Missionary and Bible Con-

ference. Some twenty-one missionary societies were represen
sonnel and displays during the annual conference which
opening of the second semester, January 7-9.

ted with per-
marked the

TRUSTEES HONORED

Six Bryan trustees were presented
with citations of merit in recognition
of their years of service on the board.
The awards were made at the trustee
chapel program on January 27, during
the winter meeting of the board.

Pictured following the presenta-
tions are, front row, left to right. Rev.
Lewis Llewellyn, pastor, of Sebring,
Fla., and Dr. J. Wesley McKinney,
Memphis ophthamologist and
chairman of the board, each of whom
has served for twenty-five years, and
Barry Whitney, of Augusta, Ga., cot-
ton factor, who has served for fifteen
years. Back row, left to right are James
Barth, agri-businessman, of Poland,
Ohio, and Rev. W. Earle Stevens, Jr.,
Memphis pastor, each of whom has
served ten years, and Dr. Theodore C.
Mercer, Bryan's president, who made
the presentations.

Not present for the ceremony was
Miss Ruth Huston, of Winter Park,
Fla., who was cited for fifteen years of
service.

MUSIC RECITALS

An important feature of the
activity of the division of fine arts is
the presentation of students in recitals
which are a part of the requirements
of the various music majors.

The first of the season's recitals
occurred on November 20, when Miss
Phoebe Blount, of Hampton, Va., and
Miss Sarah Jones, of Miami, Fla., were
presented in their joint senior piano
recital. Both women are music educa-
tion majors. On December 4, Hodge
Drake, of Hamilton, Ohio, a major in
music theory and composition, direct-
ed a number of his own compositions,
which were performed variously by
the Madrigals, Miss Touts and Miss
Rummel.

Miss Margaret English, of Kinsale,
Va., and Miss Robin Rummel, of
Durham, N.C., music education
majors, presented their recital on
January 27. Miss Rummel, pianist,
played compositions by Bach, Brahms,
Kennan, Liszt, and Ravel; and Miss
English, soprano, sang selections by
Sullivan, Marcello, von Gluck,
Schumann, Chausson, and Rowley, as
well as a group of unpublished biblical
songs by Judy Hunicutt, of Knoxville.

Dan Alderman, a church music
major from Beaver, West Va., and his
wife, Connie, a music education major,
appeared in joint recital on March 22,
he in voice and she in piano. They
were followed by Miss Barbara
Canatella, a major in music theory and

composition, of KingsvOle, Md., in a
vocal and instrumental recital on
March 29.

Miss Terri Fouts, vocalist, of Vero
Beach, Fla., and Miss Verna Carney,
pianist, of Little Hocking, Ohio, music
education majors, will appear in joint
voice and piano recital on April 8: and
Mrs. Debbie Kier, of Dayton, also a
music education major, and Miss
English wUl give a joint recital on .April
20, Mrs. Kier in voice and Miss
English, appearing in her second
recital, in piano.

JEANNETTE CLIFT
CHARMS BRYAN
Jeannette Clift George, Christian
actress and star of the film The Hiding
Place, recently released by World Wide
Pictures, captivated the Bryan com-
munity January 19 and 20 with her
chapel lectures and dramatic presenta-
tion. Sponsored by the division of
literature and modem languages as a
part of the annual divisional lectures,
she spoke on "Drama and the
Christian" in her first chapel appear-
ance. The second day she described
the filming of The Hiding Place and
showed a brief film clip from the pic-
ture now being premiered in the Un-
ited States.

In afternoon sessions she conduct-
ed student workshops on "Drama in
the Church" and on the technical as-
pects of acting. In the one night
session she gave her own personal
Christian testimony followed by a
dramatic performance. .

In the fUm she portrays Corrie ten I
Boom, the Dutch Christian who saved '
the lives of scores of Jews in HoUand
during the Nazi occupation. Also well-
known as a Bible teacher, speaker.
monologist, and playwright. Miss Clift
speaks to many churches and civic
groups as well as educational insti-
tutions.

DR. BARTLETT CONDUCTS
ELEVENTH EUROPEAN TOUR
Dr. John B. Bartlett will conduct
his eleventh European tour this sum-
mer. The twenty-day, first-class ex-.

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cursion set for June 20 through July 9
will combine a seven-day Mediter-
ranean cruise with a grand tour of
Europe.

Dr. Bartlett states: "The European
tour wOl take in Paris with its elegant
palaces, old churches, charming
courtyards, winding side streets, and
wide hustling boulevards. Visits to
beautiful Lucerne in the Swiss Alps
and exotic Milan in Italy will bring us
next to storied Venice, where the tour
embarks on the Mediterranean cruise,
an exciting new addition to the tour
this year. The cruise includes far-
away places with strange-sounding
names as Dubrovnik on the Dalmation
coast of Yugoslavia; Katakalou on the
Ionian Sea; the ancient Corinthian
capitol of Corfu; Athens; and Itea, lo-
cation of the fabled Oracle of Delphi.
Returning to Venice, the travelers con-
tinue on to Florence, Rome, and Lon-
don, with time allowed in each city for
sightseeing, local excursions, shopping,
and entertainment."

CHOIR

The 45-voice Bryan Concert Choir
made its annual spring tour during the
vacation days early in March on a
southwestern swing. From an initial
stop in Fort Valley, Ga., the chartered
bus load of Bryan musicians made its
way to New Orleans area for Sunday
services and then headed west for
Monday through Friday in Texas cen-
tered around Dallas. The return trip in-
cluded stops in Mississippi and a final
appointment on Sunday night at
Birmingham, Ala.

In keeping with the bicentennial
theme, the choir program features a
collage of American music by
American composers, ranging from the
Psalm tunes to contemporary works of
Charles Ives, Randall Thompson, and
Lee Hoiby, and folk gospel music by
the Madrigals. Also included is music
from the Revolutionary days by Lane
Billings, one of the first native Ameri-
can composers; music of the Moravian
church; selections from the Sacred
Harp Hymnal; and black spirituals. Re-
lated to the days of the founding
fathers are anthems from the English
cathedral school, which would have

been popular in England at the time
the Pilgrims came to America.

The choir gave its annual home
concert in chapel on March 16, im-
mediately after returning from tour.

AES CONVENTION

Four student government offi-
cers—Student Senate president George
McLawhon, Jr., Port St. Joe, Fla. ; vice
president Steve Johnson, Jackson,
Mich.; secretary Becky Barge, Macon,
Miss.; and business manager Becky
Spoede, Day ton — represented the
student body at the annual meeting of
the Association of Evangelical Stu-
dents in Washington, D.C., at the end
of February. The convention was held
in conjunction with the joint conven-
tion of the National Association of
Evangelicals and the National Reli-
gious Broadcasters. The meeting con-
vened with an address by President
Ford and also Congressman John
Conlan, Ariz. During the week the
students attended seminars on leader-
ship development and group ministries
led by Dr. Hudson T. Armerding,
president of Wheaton College; Dr. Bill
Gwinn of Christian Camping; and Dr.
Everett Graffam of World Relief Com-
mission. The convention ended with
the annual banquet at which George
Beverly Shea was the featured soloist
and Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer was the
speaker.

BRYAN ALUMNI DINNERS

Shown above are Col. and Mrs. J.
Henderson Brock, of Bradenton, Fla.,
who were guests of honor at a dinner
meeting of Bryan friends and alumni
at Holmes Beach on Feb. 17; they
were presented a number of gifts and a
citation of merit in recognition of
their scholarship program and support
of Rudd Memorial Chapel project.
Seventy persons representing eight
states attended the dinner.

BRYAN GOSPEL MESSENGERS

The summer touring group of
Bryan Gospel Messengers includes a
male quartet plus their accompanist,
John Steele, a junior of Dayton, Tenn.
Two repeating travelers are Brian
Schrauger, a junior of Eaton Rapids,
Mich., and Dan Jones, a sophomore of
Augusta, Mich. The newcomers are
Larry Klabunde, a sophomore from
HuntsvUle, Ala., and Ron Decker, a
sophomore from Westland, Mich. Con-
firmed appointments at press time for
an eleven-week tour include the
following:

First Baptist Church

Warwick, Ga.

Ortega Presbyterian Church

Jacksonville, Fla.

Grace Brethren Church

Pompano Beach, Fla.

LeJeune Presbyterian Church

Miami, Fla.
-Bible Fellowship Church

Sebring, Fla.
-Calvary Baptist Church

Pensacola, Fla.
-Open Door Bible Church

Memphis, Tenn.
-East White Oak Bible Church

Cariock, 111.
-Faith Bible Church

Decatur, 111.
-Grace Bible Church

Washington, 111.
-Pekin Bible Church

Pekin, 111.
-Bethel Bible Church

Hammond, Ind.
-First Baptist Church

Valparaiso, Ind.

Gull Lake Bible Conference

Hickory Corners, Mich.

Byron Center Bible Church

Byron Center, Mich.

First Baptist Church

St. Clair, Mich.
-Hickory Grove Baptist

Church and Camp

Chariotte, N. C.

Pastors and other friends interested
in appointments within the geographi-
cal areas and calendar schedule indi-
cated above should write or telephone
(615-775-2041) Miss Rebecca Peck,
executive alumni secretary, who is
arranging the schedule.

May

18-

May

23-

May

28-

May

30-

June

11-

June

July 2-
and 3
July 6-^

July

July
29

25-

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

Visit Bryan Campus
during your spring vacation.

Contact: Admissions Office
Bryan College

Dayton, TN. 37321

SPRING 1976

CHAPEL CHAIR CAMPAIGN

Ted Headlee, left. auJ r<>ni Cocrz are
shown in their skit unveiling the chair
options for Rudd Chapel auditorium.

George McLawhon. student body president,
presenting the Chairs for Chapel Project dur-
ing a student assemblly.

The flurry that typifies most stu-
dent projects was evident in the kick-
off for the "Chapel Chair Campaign"
sponsored by the Student Senate of
the college. The project was first intro-
duced through a clever skit in which
Ted Headlee, of Chattanooga, a junior,
represented a chair salesman; Tom
Goetz, a junior, also of Chattanooga,
impersonated the dean of students,
Kermit Zopfi; and David Mercer,
senior math major, impersonated his
father, the president of the college.
While Tom as dean in the skit present-
ed chairs for the students' considera-
tion, David— dressed like, acting like,
and talking like his father— stood by to
counsel the dean and to take pictures
of the chair models. Included among
the models were a folding lounge chair
in which students could easily sleep
during public performances, a model
made from cement blocks which
would remind the students of all those
chapels during which they sat on the
concrete bleachers in the gymnasium,
and finally a handsome opera-type
chair which is a candidate for final

selection. With this introduction of the
challenge afforded by the project.
Student Senate president George
McLawhon, a senior of Port St. Joe,
Fla., presented the plan of action in
which the Student Senate is soliciting
the entire student body for individual
names to whom a brochure, plus a
personal note from the person sub-
mitting the name, will be sent.

The attractive brochure includes a
letter from the college vice president
introducing the campaign and a letter
from the Student Senate president
stressing the idea that because every
other constituent of the college com-
munity has made a sizable contribu-
tion toward the Rudd Memorial
Chapel, the student body also wants to
do its part.

The purpose of the campaign is to
raise the $42,000 needed for the
chapel seating. Solicitations will be
made on the basis of an individual's
purchase of a single chair at the price
of $50 per chair. As an incentive, a
$250 first-prize scholarship and a $100
second-prize scholarship will be award-
ed to the students who secure the
contributions of the most chairs. In
addition, each student "selling" or
contributing a chair will be treated to
a steak dinner.

The Senate is off and running; the
project is gaining momentum.- A first
report will be given at the April 2
banquet honoring Dr. and Mrs. Mercer
for twenty years of service at Bryan
College.

WITH OUR FACULTY

Dr. Biller Participates
in Training Program

During the month of January, Dr.
Tom Biller, assistant professor of
psychology, completed an educational
training program of the Tennessee De-
partment of Mental Health, certifying
him as a forensic evaluator, which
qualifies him to test the competency
of a criminal suspect to stand trial. Dr.
Biller is also assistant pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Dayton.

Dr. Richardson Speaks
Dr. Brian Richardson, associate
professor of Christian education, was
keynote speaker for the Christian and
Missionary Alliance State Sunday
School Convention in Marietta,
Georgia, on January 31. He also con-
ducted two workshops during the con-
ference. Dr. Richardson also serves as
pastor of Sale Creek Presbyterian
Church.

Mr. Ketchersid Leads CASC Workshop

Mr. William Ketchersid, associate
professor of history, was one of five
leaders, from as many colleges,
directing the southeastern regional
workshop for faculty development.
Held in Atlanta on February 5 and 6,
the conference was sponsored by the
Council for the Advancement of Small
Colleges (CASC). Mr. Ketchersid is
chairman of the division of histor\ .
business, and social sciences at Bryan
and is on-campus consultant for
faculty development.

Other colleges participating in the
workshop were Mars Hill College
(N.C.), Mobile College (Ala.), TreveccE,
Nazarene College (Tenn.), and Pike,
ville College (Ky.). Also attending tht'
workshop from Bryan were Gler;
Liebig, associate academic dean anc;
registrar; Dr. Robert Spoede, associati
professor of history and social science
Dr. Robert Jenkins, professor o
business and head of the departmen
of business; Dr. Richard Cornelius
professor of English and chairman o
the division of literature and moderi
languages; and William Boyd, assistan
professor of music.

BRYAN LIFE

DR. HENNING RETIRES AFTER 20 YEARS SERVICE

Dr. Willard L. Henning officially re-
tired as full-time faculty member in
December, after serving twenty years
as professor of biology and six years as
the first chairman of the Division of
Natural Sciences from the inception of
the divisional organization in 1968. On
March 19 Dr. Henning was honored at
a faculty-staff dinner during which
gifts were presented and special tri-
butes paid to him for his years of un-
selfish and dedicated service at Bryan
College.

Although officially retired from a
full-time job in the work-a-day-world,
Dr. Henning wants to continue a busy
schedule as long as he is able. The ad-
justment to a lighter teaching load will
not be too difficult because it will give
him more flexibility to schedule and
accomplish the many miscellaneous
jobs he has looked forward to doing.

In Dr. Henning's plans for the
'uture, as he continues on a part-time
)asis at the college, is the completion
)f the work on the museum collection,
vhich he started as a project when he
'irst came to Bryan in September of
1956. Two facts encouraged him in his
mdeavor. He already had a modest
:ollection of various specimens which
le had accumulated in his study and
ravels during previous years. Also
leveral useful and worthwhile speci-
nens were already owned by the col-
ege, including a fairly large collection
)f minerals and rocks that had been
issembled by the first science pro-
essor during the year Bryan College
jegan, 1930-31. A very large number
jf specimens of all types (various
inimals, plants and parts, rocks, arche-
slogical artifacts, curios, ornaments,
^tc.) have been added through the
^ears. Sorting, repairing, identifying,
md mounting these specimens, as well
IS planning and arranging suitable dis-
play facilities, are a major part of the
ask awaiting him in the full develop-
nent of the Henning Museum, which
tas attracted considerable attention
)ver the years.

The writing of a concise account of
he Scopes Trial from the Christian

viewpoint is also high on Dr. Henning's
"retirement" priority list. As time per-
mits, he wishes to develop a course in
Science and the Bible from the crea-
tionist's point of view. During his
twenty years at Bryan College, he has
had many opportunities to point out
the creationist's view on the origin of
man, of life, and the entire physical
realm of God's creation. He has
written many articles on the subject,
including a booklet, How Valid is the
Theory of Evolution?, which has had
wide circulation. Although Dr.
Henning has seen many, many changes
and improvements at Bryan College,
his personal belief in the reliability of
the Scriptural account of creation as
stated in the Holy Bible has not
changed. Dr. Henning believes this can
only be understood and accepted by
those who believe in God as Almighty,
who holds power over matter and who
is a worker of miracles. No other alter-
native is plausible for the origin of the
universe or the world and all things in .
it.

Dr. Henning's chief concern, how-
ever, as he looks to the future with a
view of fewer regular responsibilities,
is to be used by the Lord in any area
of service open to him.

In reminiscing about his first years
of teaching at Bryan, Dr. Henning re-
members that for the most part basic
courses were taught, classes were
small, and the students were usually
talented and dedicated. Always his
custom was to begin class with a perti-
nent verse of Scripture, as well as with
prayer. Through the years he took the
students on field trips to the Atomic
Energy Museum and to the labora-
tories at Oak Ridge and to the
Chilhowee Park Zoo in Knoxville; on
bird hikes to Hiwassee Island and
Ivan's Pond; and on other hikes to
Buzzard's Roost, Lone Mountain,
Laurel Falls, Morgantown Gulch (now
the Pocket Wilderness), all in the
vicinity of Dayton and in Rhea
County, and Little Piney Gorge near
Spring City and Grassy Cove Cave in
Cumberland County.

HARRIETTE BARBOUR
1912-1976

Harriette Barbour is representative
of that company of the Lord's esteem-
ed servants whom God has allowed
Bryan to include among its friends
over the years. Born in Chicago to a
family which had become knowledge-
ably Christian by being made aware of
the truth of the Second Coming of
Christ, she became a strong and
devoted Christian and spent an inter-
esting lifetime serving Jesus Christ.

Her ministry included some ten
years as a high-school Bible teacher
and leader of Christian activities in
Morganton, N.C., and twenty years in
Singapore as a missionary. In Morgan-
ton she influenced successive genera-
tions of high-school young people for
Jesus Christ, some of whom have gone
on in full-time ministries themselves.
In Singapore she had a fascinating life
of writing, teaching, counseUng, and of
just being a friend of Asians. Her cir-
cular missionary letters were without
doubt the best I have ever seen or
read. They were excellently written
and showed that remarkable blending
of information and inspiration which
her creative-writing ability enabled her
to produce. Her total writing output
was considerable, including three
books. Forward For Christ and two
study books on Genesis and Exodus,
written especially for Asians.

A woman of gentle Christian spirit,
intelligent, flexible, generous, hospit-
able, gifted, congenial, cosmopolitan,
realistic, and balanced, she had a large
and devoted circle of personal
Christian friends. Her report ^ letters
were replete with the names and
activities which reflected this unusual
breadth of personal relationships and
Christian ministry. Her hope to go
once more to Singapore for a brief
stay was unfulfilled; but as one friend
observed, God had a far better journey
in -mind for her. On the evening of
February 1 2, she entered the presence
of the Lord, whom she loved and had
served faithfully.

"A woman that feareth the Lord,
she shall be praised" (Prov. 31:30b).

Theodore C. Mercer

SPRING 1976

SPOTLIGHTING SPORTS By Jeff Tubbs, Sports Information Director

Front row, left to right: David Sligh, Mike Hall, Mike Eldridge, Quenton Crabtree,
Clarence McDowell, and Larry Nicks. Back row: Rudy Wolter, Dan Begley, Mike
Hathaway, Wes Johnson, Jerry Cline, Dwight Poole, Rob Jones, Don Blanton, Chuck
Sanders.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

The men's basketball team won its
first Southern Christian Athletic Con-
ference championship since 1968-69
with a 75-72 triumph over Lee College
in the final game of the SCAC tourna-
ment. Bryan, the regular season con-
ference champ with a 7-1 record, was
seeded first in the tourney and de-
feated Covenant in the semifinal game.

There were many exciting moments
during the season. A last-second shot
by Mike Eldridge gave the Lions a
58-57 victory over Tennessee Temple
in late January, the first time Bryan
had defeated Temple in five years.
Also defeating Lee College for the first
time in five years, the Bryan Lions
beat the Vikings all three times they
met this year.

In addition to their SCAC
championship, the Lions finished with
an 18-13 won-lost season, the first
time since 1970-71 that the squad has
had a winning record. For the first
time ever, Bryan qualified for a
National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics District 24 play-off berth.
Lincoln Memorial University beat the
Lions in the final-round game. Bryan
also quaUfied for the National Chris-
tian College Athletic Association play-
offs in early March.

Senior Dan Begley, from Hazard,
Ky., won many honors. In addition to
being scoring champion of SCAC (22.0
points per game) and receiving the
Most Valuable Player of SCAC award,
he was named to the SCAC all-con-
ference and all-tournament first teams
and to the All NAIA District 24. Jerry
Cline, sophomore, from Mansfield, O.,
led the team in rebounding and scored
an average of 1 5 points a game.

Other members of this year's suc-
cessful squad were Chuck Sanders,
Hixson; Clarence McDowell, Memphis;
Dwight Poole, Memphis; Mike Hatha-

way, Asheville, N.C.; Mike Hall,
Dayton; Mike Eldridge, Red Bank;
Wesley Johnson, Chattanooga; Don
Blanton, Virginia Beach, Va.; Rob
Jones, Hooper, Colo.; and Quenttn
Crabtree, Henegar, Ala.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

The women's basketball team
closed out its season by winning the
MilUgan College Round Robin Basket-
ball Tournament on February 27-28.
The Lionettes beat Cincinnati Bible
College 68-47, MilUgan 46-35, and
Atlanta Christian 64-34, to claim the
first-place trophy. Other highlights of
the season were beating Covenant
twice and playing before 1500 fans
against Tennessee Temple.

Loretta Spencer, last year's Most
Valuable Player, from Asheville, N.C.,
led the squad in rebounding, with 11.6
a game, and in scoring with 10.2
points an outing. Linda Crabtree, a
sophomore from Shelbyville, Tenn.,
paced the Lionettes in free-throw
shooting with 70%. Kathy McRey-
nolds, Dayton, O., led in assists. The
other starters were Becky Branham,
Richmond, Va., and Louise Burt,
Lima, Peru.

Other members of the team who
served as valuable reserves were Jan
Hawkins, New Orleans, La.; Jenny
Meznar, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Betsy
Arnold, Sioux City, la.; Brenda Went-
worth. New London, Wise; and Sheila
Dunlap, Clendenin, W. Va.

This was the first year of a fully
organized program of women's sports
at Bryan. The achievements and ex-
periences of this year provide the basis
for a good outlook for 1976-77. A
program of athletics for women com-
mensurate with the interests of the
Bryan coeds will definitely be a coij.-
sideration in the long-range planning
of the college.

RUDD CHAPE

Although the beautiful we
which lasted well into Decembei
way to a January of heavy rain
freezing temperatures, constructi
the Rudd Memorial Chapel has
tinued on a regular basis, perm
much progress since the last i
shared in the winter editic
BRYAN LIFE. Outside walls a
per cent completed. Large ex
stairways leading to parking
behind the auditorium are being
ed. Inside the gigantic structure,
plumbing fixtures and electrica
duits are being installed. Added
tions make distinguishable new i
and studio areas. With the com
spring, construction project ma
Jim Kelley, says that the buildin
move ahead very rapidly fron
point. A tentative completion d
October is projected at this time.

Moneys continue to come
nothing short of "miracle fashii
the construction of the project '
ahead. Architectural fees, plus tl
of the beautiful spire already in
bring the basic construction c
the building itself to $878,000. (

BRYAN LIF

OGRESS

nt S785.000 is on hand in cash
;dges, S50,000 of which is the
e challenge grant, which will be
led for at the 5800,000 level.
God's perfect timing, this has
provided by Him through num-
if His faithful children dedicated
; ministry of Bryan. In addition
proximately 585,000 yet needed
e construction cost of the build-
tself, some $150,000 more is
pd for basic furnishings and
'nent. The organ for the chapel
ncluded in the above cost esti-
, furnishings for all the music
s and classrooms, plus pianos for
nd room, choir room, and bicen-
1 hall— all these needs represent
rial opportunities. For complete
lation concerning the available
rial opportunities, write to Dr.
i. Bartlett, vice president.

The Bicentennial Committee is shown in a recent meeting in the Hayden Lounge.
Seen in the front row, left to right are Miss Rebecca Peck, alumni executive
secretary: Miss Rachel Ross, assistant professor of speech: Miss Virginia Segiiine,
director of library services: and Miss Ruth Kantzer. associate professor of English. In
the hack row are three students-Lee Samples, George McLawhon. and Steve G.
Jolmson: Committee Chairman William L. Ketchersid, associate professor of history:
and Dr. Robert Spoede. associate professor of history.

Members not in the picture are Ken Baker, Gary Criswell, Gary Franklin, and
Becky Spoede, students,: Mr. L. Donald Hill, assistant professor of education: and Dr.
T. C. Mercer, president of the college.

e four pictures below show
of construction progress on
Chapel, a progress as of press
. hich saw all exterior walls up to
eight and the building under

BRYAN CELEBRATES
THE NATIONAL BIRTHDAY

The National American Revolution
Bicentennial Administration has em-
phasized three aspects for bicentennial
program planning; Heritage, Festival
USA, and Horizons. The first is a cele-
bration of the past, the second focuses
on the present, and the third looks to
the future.

Rhea County received its official
designation as a bicentennial commu-
nity last fall, and it is expected that
Bryan will be declared a bicentennial
campus this spring. Such designations
are given on the basis of meeting
definite criteria of planning and pro-
gram execution.

The Bicentennial Year was inaugu-
rated at Bryan on April 18, 1975, with
a special convocation on the eve of the
anniversary of the battles at Lexington
and Concord. That initial program was
one of word and music and included
the presentation of an American flag
by the local American Legion post.
Practically all college organizations are

participating in one way or another in
carrying out the bicentennial theme on
campus.

Representative of the continuing
activities are such programs as the
national Bicentennial Youth Debates
in which Bryan students participated
last fall; a series of three films pro-
duced and distributed by the Colonial
Wilhamsburg Foundation of Williams-
burg, Va., and shown during the first
semester; and the music department
emphasis in both repertoire and
costumes for the Concert Choir and
Madrigals in programs which they
shared at the president's reception
early last fall, at the Singing Christmas
Tree concert in Chattanooga, in their
spring tour concert, and in the variety
show on campus.

A lasting reminder of the anniver-
sary theme will be estabhshed by the
assembUng of books on American his-
tory and culture for the Ironside Mem-
orial Library at Bryan.

'RING 1976

Editorial Office, William Jennings
Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee
37321. Publishing Office, Cross
Roads Publications, Inc., 2110
Silver Hill Road, Stone Mountain,
Georgia 30083, 404/939-6507.

Dr. Theodore C. Mercer,

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Robert C. Hill, EDITOR

John Weyant, MANAGING

EDITOR

Shirley Holmes, CIRCULATION

MANAGER

Steve Lester, ART DIRECTOR

Consulting Editors: Dr. John
Bartlett, Larry Levenger, Rebecca
Peck and Charles Robinson.

William Jennings Bryan College

Dayton, Tennessee

COVER PHOTO
IDENTIFICATIONS:

FRONT COVER:

President and Mrs. Theodore
C. Mercer cut the anniversary
cake at the Appreciation Day din-
ner held in their honor in the
Bryan dining hall.

(Photo by Cunnyngham Studio,
Dayton, Tenn.)

BACK COVER:

Larry Efird, president of the
1976-77 student body carrying
the American flag, and Dr. Robert
W. Spoede, professor of history
and social sciences carrying the
Bicentennial flag, lead the pro-
cession at the outdoor commence-
ment exercises on May 3.

(Photo by Larry Levenger)

BRYAN LIFE

Volume I

Summer 1976

Number 4

WHY AM I INVOLVED IN THE GIDEON MINISTRY?: A buUding con- 3
tractor explains the extension of his witness for Christ through the work of
the Gideons. By R. Don Efird.

WHAT NEXT?: The Christian's comfort in these last days is the soon return 4
of Jesus Christ. By Donald K. Campbell.

THE HISTORICAL VALIDITY OF THE BIBLE: There are more ancient 6
manuscripts establishing the historical validity of the Bible than any other
book of antiquity. By Stephen J. Strauss

HOW TO GET THINGS DONE: A Biblical outline given as advice to the Class 7
of '76 meets a need for every Christian. By Dr. Richard Strauss.

RUDD CHAPEL PROGRESS: An updated construction and financial report. 9
By John B. Bartlett.

CAMPUS REVIEW: A bird's-eye view of campus activities, faculty 10
happenings, and news of interest.

MERCER APPRECIATION DAY: God has prospered Bryan these past 12
twenty years under the administrative leadership of Dr. Mercer.

HONORIS CAUSA: A listing of awards for academic excellence and special 13
recognition for service rendered.

A YEAR TO REMEMBER JN ATHLETICS: Highlights of outstanding 15
achievements in athletics at Bryan. By Jeff Tubbs.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Alice and I were quite overwhelmed

by all the happy attention we received on

the occasion of celebrating our twenty

years at Bryan. We are keenly aware that

whatever has been accomplished during

our years here is a result of God's mercy

and goodness. We are just as keenly aware

that the improvement of Bryan has come

about because of a team effort involving many people over the years— many at

Bryan, many not at Bryan, and many others who are now in heaven. "To God be

the glory, Great things He hath done."

Bryan needs its friends as never before as the increasing darkness of the end of
the age settles over the world. Never before was there such a need to reach young
people for Jesus Christ, not only in that initial commitment of conversion but also
in that on-going development and inner change, the occurrence of which alone will
make true for any of us our Saviour's teaching "Ye are the salt of the earth."

Theodore C. Mercer

BRYAN LIFE

Involvement in the Gideon Ministry

R. Don Efird

Mr. Efiid, a graduate of Wake
Forest College, is a residential
louilding contractor and insurance
underwriter in Kannapolis, North
jCarolina. He is a ruling elder of
!the First Presbyterian Church of
|that city and a Sunday school
Iteacher; for twelve years he served
lis church troop Scoutmaster. Mr.
Iind Mrs. Efird are the parents of
five sons and two daughters.

In his community outreach he
serves on the board of directors of
lumerous organizations— Boys'
^lub, Salvation Army, United
Vay, and Half-Way House (chair-
nan), in his county; and at the
itate level, the North Carolina
rhristian Action League and
"^orth Carolina Council of Boy
icouts of America. He is presi-
lent of Kannapolis Merchants'
Association and a Rotarian. He
ias received numerous awards in
;ecognition of his community
ervice.

His Gideon activity began
iwenty-one years ago. Currently
serving as International Vice Presi-
jlent, he is past state president,
Hce president, and secretary of
j^Jorth Carolina Gideons and for
iix years was a member of the In-
ernational Extension Committee.
.n this latter position he had the
'Wersight of Gideon work in the
British Isles, Bermuda, and several
countries of Africa.

Since 1969 he has been a
nember of the Bryan Board of
frustees, on which he serves as
:hairman of the strategic build-
ngs and grounds committee,
vhich has the responsibility for
>olicy and planning in the area of
|)hysical facilities.

THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL

On May 16, 1976, Israel became the 110th nation into which the Gideon ministry has
been extended. Chad had been added in April 1976. With the dropping of Laos, Cam-
bodia, Angola, and South Vietnam, the Gideon membership of over 50,000 men repre-
sents 106 countries. Additionally there are more than 25,000 members of the Auxihary
(wives of Gideons). Since 1908, when the first parcel of Bibles was handed to a hotel
manager in Montana, over 160 million Scriptures have been distributed in these countries
in 43 languages. The international headquarters office of the Gideons is in Nashville,
Tennessee. M. A. Henderson is executive director.

THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL

2900 LEBANON ROAD • NASHVILLE. TENNESSEE 37214
A Christian Business and Professional Men's Association

• (615) 883-8533

R. Don Etird

407 Iris Avenue

Kannapolis, North Carolina 28081

WHY AM I INVOLVED IN THE GIDEON MINISTRY?

The purpose of the Gideons is singular, and that is the winning of the lost to our
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. There was a time in my life when this did not concern me,
but things began to happen which made me keenly aware of my own spiritual need. I
began to seek God's priorities for my life and where I could best serve Him; then
opportunity after opportunity began to present itself. Although I was actively involved in
my church, and still am, I began to sense a tremendous need to be used as a witness for
Christ to those outside the church. The Gideon ministry became to me that avenue by
which my outreach for Christ could be multiplied.

I found in the Gideon ministry a group of Christian men who come from practically
every evangelical denomination, men who love the Lord and are dedicated to presenting
Christ to men, women, boys and girls through personal witnessing and distribution of
God's Word in strategic "traffic lanes of life."

In just seventy-seven years, God has raised up from 106 countries 52,000 men, who
have contributed and raised funds to distribute freely 160 million copies of the Word of
God. There is a continuous search for truth and peace by mankind with an increasing
thirst for the Holy Scriptures. This results in many open doors for the placing of God's
Word, with great excitement and acceptance wherever and whenever Gideons place the
Scriptures in hotels, motels, prisons, schools, hospitals, colleges, military installations, and
other areas as God leads.

One of the most meaningful aspects of the Gideon ministry to me, other than the
winning of the lost to Christ, is the anonymity of the organization. The membership seeks
to glorify God by acknowledging this as His ministry and not that of man and claims His
promise to honor His Word above all else. Upon observing the many accounts of how God
has changed lives because of the presence of His Holy Word at the appropriate time and
place, one realizes, with much reverence and awe, how only the mighty and moving
power of God could execute such miracles. "For of Him, and through Him, and to Him,
are all things: to whom be glory forever" (Romans 1 1:36).

/ff'iZl^ ^^^

OFFICERS

l^esident — David L. Hofer, Dinuba, California
Vice President— R. Don Efird. Kannapolis. North Carolina
Treasurer — W. David Luikaoj-l. Grand Rapids, Michigan
Chaplain — P. /. Zondervan, Boca Raton, Florida
Executive Director — M. A. Henderson. Nashville. Tennessee

TRUSTEES

Duane N. Sandberg. Eugene, Oregon

Paul. W Bue^ler. New Brighton, Minnesota

]. S. Benton. Newton, Kansas

B. Don Johnson, Carnegie. Oklahoma

Robert L. Smith. Waterloo. Inwa

W. R. Davenport, Campbetlsuille, Kentucky
George B. Jones. Memphis, Tennessee
John E. Johnson, Watkins Gkn. N.Y.
Earl L. Moss. Camp Springs, Maryland
Charles R. Bradlord, Decatur. Georgia

DISTRIBUTING GOD'S HOLY WORD

WINNING OTHERS FOR CHRIST

■^UMMER 1976

What Next?

by Dr. Donald K.Cambell

Our generation is unnerved in the
face of many signs seeming to indicate
the nearness of worldwide catastrophe.
People are asking, "What next?" Nu-
clear weaponry poses a great problem
among the nations of the world. Not
only the great powers but many other
nations as well are developing nuclear
capacity, and the threat of an out-
break of nuclear war is a terrible
thouglit to contemplate. Since the
world population has now reached
four billion, the problem of over-
population is a grievous one. Humanly
speaking, it appears that in just a few
years the world will not be able to
feed its population and milhons of
people will face death by starvation.
Other problems— such as worldwide
pollution, increasing lawlessness, and
immorality-point to the fact that
time seems to be running out for our
civilization.

In such a context God's people are
answering the question "What next?"
by turning to the Scriptures for reas-
surance regarding the next event in
God's program. That event, we believe,
is the coming of Christ for the church,
an event which may take place at any
moment. Recently I was in Louisiana
for a Bible conference and met a fine
Christian layman who works in an
industrial plant. He had a bumper
sticker on his car with the word
"Maranatha" printed on it. A fellow
worker asked him what that meant.
Art replied, "The Lord is coming!"
The man said, "I don't believe that!"
Art rephed, "Well, He's not coming for
you!" Now that may have been a
pretty blunt way to express the truth
about the Lord's coming, but it cer-
tainly provoked the thinking of the
unsaved friend.

We must face the fact that there is
a great deal of confusion abroad re-
garding the truth of the Lord's
coming. Some years ago an annual
meeting of pastors from all denomina-
tions was held in Ohio and was called
the Ohio Pastors' Convention. One
year the group was asked the question,
"When do you think Jesus Christ will
return?" The answers of these pastors
were as follows;

1. "Jesus is here now."

2. "His coming is far distant."

3. "He returns when one accepts
Christ."

4. "He returns in movements for
world betterment."

5. "He is here now although no
one has discovered Him. When
they do. He will be as popular
as Babe Ruth."

6. "He will return when the earth
is without sin."

That these concepts are all false is
quickly revealed by attention to the
Word of God. Dr. Andrew Bonar told
the story of the Scottish man who late
in life learned the truth of the second
coming of Christ. It revolutionized his
life. One Sunday he took a trip into
the city of Edinburgh with the
intention of visiting some of the larger
churches, hoping there to learn more
about his new-found truth. When he
returned to his village, the people
asked him how he liked the Edinburgh
preachers. He replied, "They all fly on
one wing. They all preach the first
coming of Christ but do not mention
His second coming." It is difficult to
understand how so prominent a New
Testament doctrine could be missed,
the doctrine which provides wonderful
hope for God's people in the
darkening days of this age.

In the upper room, Jesus Christ
made a simple promise to His
disciples: "Let not your heart be
troubled; ye believe in God, believe
also in me. In my Father's house are
many mansions; if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go and prepare
a place for you, I will come again and
receive you unto myself, that where I
am, there ye may be also" (John
14:1-3). The fact, therefore, of the
Lord's coming for His own is revealed
in John 14, but the details of His
coming for the church are revealed in I
Thessalonians 4: 13-18. Let us examine
this passage.

I. THE PURPOSE OF THIS TRUTH

Paul states in I Thessalonians 4: 13,
"But I would not have you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning them
who are asleep, that ye sorrow not,
even as others who have no hope."
Paul's great purpose in writing on this
theme was to set before the
Thessalonian Christians the fact that
the Christian faith gives us great hope

when our loved ones in Christ are
taken in death. This was in greal
contrast to the heathen religions which
offered no such hope. Within receni
years an inscription was discovered ir
a cemetery in Thessalonica. Thf
epitaph read, "After death no reviving
after the grave no meeting again.'
How tragic if that were true! But thi
Scriptures assure us that we will bti
reunited with our loved ones in Chris||
who have gone on before us.

Now the special concern of thi
Thessalonian Christians was for thei
loved ones who had died. Did thi
promise of John 14 mean that thi
rapture was for living saints only? Wa
it an event that their departed lovei
ones would miss out on altogether
Paul in this passage answers thos^
questions clearly by showing that thi
events of the rapture would begin witj
the dead in Christ but would als
include the living in Christ.

II. THE PROVISION OF THIS TRUT

In verse 14 Paul writes, "For if wt
believe that Jesus died and rose again!
even so them also who sleep in Jesuj
will God bring with Him." The majo
concern of the Thessalonians seeme
to be for their loved ones who ha(
died in Christ. Paul now explains thi
provision for the dead in Christ at th
time of the Lord's return for th
church. He emphasized that th
coming of Christ for His own is just a
certain as His death and resurrectior
These great events, though separate!
by many centuries of time, ar
nonetheless very closely related; an
we are assured that the Lord's comin
for His own is just as certain as tli
events which secured for us on
salvation. Not only did Jesus die bu.
He rose again, a fact that i
emphasized in this passage; because i
He had not risen from the dead, H
would not be coming again. Just a;
surely therefore as He died and ros|
again, just so surely is He comini
again, bringing with Him those whi
"sleep in Jesus."

This is not a reference to the slee
of the soul but the sleep of the bod;
At death the body of the believsj
sleeps in the grave, but our souls an|
spirits go immediately into till

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presence of Christ. Thus we are
"absent from the body" and "present
with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8).
Thus Paul said that it was better for us
to depart and be with Christ
[Philippians 1:23). Thus Christ assured
the thief on the cross that he would be
with Him in Paradise on the very day
of his death. This, then, is proof
positive that our loved ones who have
died in the Lord are in heaven now
and that when Jesus returns He will
bring their souls along with Him so
that they may be reunited with their
bodies in which they meet the Lord in
the air and go to be with Him forever.

A busy Christian physician died
and friends openly expressed their
fears for his fragile wife. When they
:alled on her in the home they knew
that everything was going to be all
right. She had taken the sign which the
ioctor had used in his office and
placed it in a very prominent place on
the mantle. The sign read, "Gone out-
back soon." That is our hope!

An attorney friend of mine from a
learby city brought an unsaved friend

a Dallas meeting where the speaker
alked about the rapture. After the
ervice as they were returning to their
lomes, the unsaved friend said, "This
apture thing-I don't like it. It turns
ne off!" The attorney said, "Well, if
hey have it anyway do you want to
;o or do you want to stay?"
TioughtfuUy the man said, "I think I
vant to go." When they arrived at the
nsaved man's home, the conversation
ontinued on the subject of the gospel,
'inally he stood to his feet and said,

1 think this interview has come to an
nd." Turning to his wife he said.
Have you ever had this experience?"
Yes" she replied. "Then why didn't
ou tell me about it?" She said, "I did,
ut you wouldn't listen." He sat down
1 tears and received Jesus Christ as his
avior. Now, he loves the truth of the
oming of Christ. This is a truth that
lould thrill the heart of every believer
specially in these momentous days.
re you ready for His coming?

I. THE PROGRESSION OF THIS
j TRUTH

The question on the minds of the
[elievers in Thessalonica was whether
le believers who had departed from
lis life would be at some disadvantage
1 comparison with those still living on
le earth. In verse 15, Paul urges the
■aders to dismiss their fears and
?solutely confirms that, at the
3ming of Christ, one group of
;lievers will not have an advantage
■ er another. Absolute impartiality

will be shown. What will be the order
of events on that great day? Verses 16
and 1 7 indicate that three great events
will occur.

1. The revelation of Christ. "For
the Lord Himself will descend from
heaven with a shout, with a voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of
God" (verse 16a). The coming of
Christ will be visible and audible in ful-
fillment of the words of the angel to
the disciples at the time of His
ascension, "This same Jesus, who was
taken up from you into heaven, shall
so come in like manner as you have
seen Him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11).
His approach will be heralded by a
"shout," "the voice of the archangel"
and "the trump of God." The shout is
an authoritative utterance, a shout of
command. The word is sometimes
used for the military officer's shout to
his followers in battle. As John wrote,
"The hour is coming in which all that
are in the grave shall hear His voice,
and shall come forth" (John
5:28-29a). We are not told what the
Lord will say. Perhaps the shout will
be the single word "Come." We
remember that Jesus stood before the
tomb of Lazarus and said, "Lazarus,
come forth!" John, on the Island of
Patmos, saw heaven open and heard a
voice say, "Come up here" (Revelation
4:1). Or perhaps the Lord will call in
the words of the bridegroom to the
bride in the Song of Solomon, "Rise
up, my love, my fair one, and come
away!"

There seems to be in this passage a
clear analogy with Jewish marriage
customs; for when the groom left his
father's house, he would conduct a
torchlight procession to the home of
the bride. She did not know the exact
time of his coming, and it was
customary for the groom's arrival to
be preceded by a shout. This shout
would alert the bride to be prepared
for the coming of her bridegroom. As
a believer in Jesus Christ, as a member
of His church and part of His bride,
are you listening for His shout? It may
come soon.

2. The resurrection of the dead in
Christ. "And the dead in Christ shall
rise first" (verse 16b). The
Thessalonians had been agitated with
the thought that possibly departed
believers would have no place in the
events at the coming of Christ. To the
contrary, Paul states that they will be
very prominent and will indeed be
raised first. It is well to remember that
this wiU be a selective process and will
affect only those who in their natural
lifetime trusted Christ as Savior. If
perchance you might be standing in a
cemetery on the day of Christ's

coming, you would see graves opening,
one here and one there, and redeemed
souls being reunited with redeemed
bodies to go to meet Christ in the air.

3. Reception of the living in
Christ. Paul finally states, "We who are
alive and remain shall be caught up to-
together with them in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air; so shall we
ever be with the Lord" (verse 17). Paul
certainly beheved in the imminent
return of Christ and contemplated the
fact that possibly he and other first-
century believers would live to see the
return of Christ. Although that was
not to be, the imminent return of
Jesus Christ for His own continues to
be the blessed hope of the believer.
Caught up, or raptured, together with
those who have been raised, we shall
meet the Lord in the air. Where will
we go? Some suggest that we will
return immediately to the earth, but
according to John 14 that is not to be
the case. We will go with Christ to our
heavenly home and there remain with
Him while the tribulation judgments
unfold on the earth. WUl we recognize
our loved ones on that great day? It
seems to me that the expression
"together with them" clearly implies
both reunion and recognition. What a
wonderful time that will be for
Christians who have been separated by
death! Now families and friends are re-
united never to be separated again. We
shall be forever with the Lord.

Paul concludes, "Wherefore,
comfort one another with these
words" (verse 18). Since Paul has
made it clear that those who fell asleep
in Christ are not at a disadvantage as
compared with those who live until
the coming of Christ, there is every
reason for comfort or encouragement.
Furthermore, the prospect of Christ's
coming for believers before the world
is ushered into a period of tribulation,
the assurance of reunion with loved
ones, and the anticipation of seeing
Christ— all together provide a solid
basis for this final exhortation.

Dr. Donald K.
Campbell is
academic dean and
professor of Bible
exposition at Dallas
Theological Semi-
nary, Texas. He was
graduated with
highest honors from Wheaton College and
with high honors from Dallas Seminary. His
book reviews and articles appear frequently
in evangelical journals. He has traveled
widely abroad, especially in Bible lands. In
-April, when he \isited the campus for a
thiee-day conference on Bible prophecy, he
delivered the message printed here.

UMMER.1976

THE HISTORICAL VALIDITY OF THE BIBI
by Stephen J. Strauss

Dr. Richard Strauss, left, and his son
Steve were participants at the 43rd
commencement, at which Dr. Strauss
was the speaker and Steve was an
honor graduate. Steve's article was
written as a paper for a senior Bible
course.

Steve Strauss

Steve Strauss was an early ad-
mission student at Bryan in 1972
after three years at Grissom High
School, Huntsville, Ala. He graduated
summa cum laude from Bryan in
May, 1976, as number one in his class
of 126, with a straight "A" average
for four years. He was the winner of
more honors than any other class
member.

In the area of student activity,
Steve served as president of the
Qiristian service organization, PCI;
he traveled one summer with the
Gospel Messengers; he personally
participated aU four years in gospel
team work; and he represented the
student body at the International
Congress on World Evangelism in
Lausanne, Switzerland, in July, 1974.
Steve's other extra-curricular activi-
ties included membership in the
band, the choir, the soccer team, and
the dean's council.

The son of Dr. and Mrs. Richard
Strauss, Escondido, Calif., and the
grandson of Dr. and Mrs. Lehman
Strauss (Dr. Strauss is a widely
known author, evangelist, and Bible
teacher), Steve this fall is entering
Dallas Seminary, which his father
also attended.

Society today has accepted a basic
principle that there is nothing that re-
mains true from one generation to the
next. Instead modern man believes
that what is true and right for one situ-
ation may not be correct for a similar
situation at a different time. To make
such claims a man must first assume
that if there is a God, He has not re-
vealed Himself to mankind in spoken
or written words, for God and His
Word must be absolute for all time. It
is impossible for man to include an ab-
solute God in his relative world. Be-
cause any word from God must be ab-
solute for all time, the man who be-
lieves that there are no absolute princi-
ples quickly concludes that he cannot
trust anything as God's Word. If an
evangelical Christian happens to men-
tion that he believes that the Bible is
God's Word, he is usually laughed at
as a "fanatic." What assurances are
there that the Bible is God's Word?
What can be said in the face of a hu-
manistic world that sees the Bible as
just a good piece of ancient literature?
What can be learned from the Bible by
approaching it historically?

First of all, it must be pointed out
that few historians view the literary
record of a historical event as proof of
"fact" anymore. This is due to the fact
that they realize that one can never be
sure whether a record of a past event
was written as fact or as fantasy and
that they can never gather all the po-
tential data to test the truthfulness of
a past record. Therefore modern his-
torians view all past documents with
skepticism. Many references must be
compared before a source is even con-
sidered as a possible fact. For every bit
of evidence collected from that point
on, the source becomes either more or
less "fact-like." One can never be sure
he has checked all available sources; so
one can never be sure he has found a
"fact." Historians also realize that all
men that collect data to use in writing
history are usually tainted with some
bias about their topics. Since all
writers have their biases, the historian
can never be sure just how objective a
work is.

In examining the historicity of the
Bible, therefore, one must look for
two basic things. First, he must
examine all available manuscripts of
the text to see how they compare with
one another and with other ancient

documents. Second, he must attem
to examine these manuscripts from
unbiased viewpoint and with as f(
presuppositions as possible. The rest
of these studies should enable one'
come close to asserting how much
can trust the Bible as a historii
record.

In examining the ancient text:
the New Testament and compai
their great numbers with the num
of manuscripts available of ot
works of antiquity, one quickly fi
that there is more cause for accept
the New Testament as an adequate
torical work than any other piece
ancient literature. The Christian '.
torian John Warwick Montgomery
said that "to be skeptical of the re
tant text of the New Testament bo
is to allow all of classical antiquity
slip into obscurity, for no docume
of the ancient period are as well
tested bibliographically as the >
Testament" (History and Christian
p. 29). All one needs to do is to h
at the figures to see just how ri
Montgomery is. Today there are ne;
5,000 partial or complete manuscr
of the New Testament in Greek, h
of these were copied within 500 y
of the writing of the original bibl
text. The most complete early tex
Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Ale;
drinus—were all copies before 450/lf
The oldest fragment of the New Te
ment that is available is the J|
Ryland Manuscript, dated near
A.D. and providing strong evide
that the New Testament was pennei
the first century. Compared to tlj
outstanding figures are those of i
ancient classics. For example,
greatest number of available copiei
any of Aristotle's works is five,
the earliest copy was done aroJ
1100 A.D., a fact which makes
time between the writing of the o
nal and the copy about 1,400 yej
There are only ten copies of Caesj
Gallic Wars, the earhest being mj!
around 900 A.D., about 1,000 y.
after the original was written. 01|l
the works of Plato, there are now (
seven copies, the earliest copied in
A.D. or nearly 1,000 years after
wrote his originals. The list coulcl
on and on (based on Josh McDovii
Evidence That Demands a Verdicif
48). The evangelical Christian can
say with scholar F. F. Bruce, "The

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body of ancient literature in the
odd which enjoys such a wealth of
)od textual attestation as the New
sstament" (The Books and the Parch-
ents, p. 178). When these early
reek manuscripts are considered with
le many Latin, Syriac, and Coptic
Tsions of the ancient world, the secu-
r history must rank the Bible as the
ost accurate historical record of the
icient world (Cyrus H. Gordon, The
ncient Near East).

Examination of the great numbers,
; curacy, and preservation of the
icient biblical manuscripts is not the
ily test for the Bible's reliability,
ny historian of ancient history will
test to the importance of the exami-
ition of archaeology to make sure all
s written sources are accurate. Nel-
n Glueck, one of the three most re-
)wned archaeologists in the world, a
w and no friend to biblical Chris-
mity, has said, "It may be stated
tegorically that no archaeological
scovery has controverted a biblical
ference" (Rivers in the Desert: His-
ry of Negeb, p. 31). Just two of the
ore famous examples of archaeology
oving the Bible right in unusual situ-
ions include the discovery of the Hit-
:e civilization, referred to in the
ble but disbelieved by scholars until
e ruins were dug up, and the excava-
)ns of Jericho which show that, con-
iry to the nature of ancient siege
irfare, the walls fell outward as
ited in the Bible. Many historians of

ancient history before beginning in-
vestigation on their subjects now
check what the Bible has to say, for
they are discovering with much pain
that it has historical validity.

Besides having the historicity of
the manuscripts and the verification of
archaeology to prove the accuracy of
the Scriptures, we have the word of
ancient writers, showing that they re-
spected the Bible as an accurate his-
torical record. In Against Heresies III,
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons in 180
A.D., states, "So firm is the ground
upon which these Gospels rest, that
the very heretics themselves bear wit-
ness to them, and, starting from these,
each one of them endeavours to estab-
lish his own particular doctrine." Cle-
ment of Rome in 95 a.d. referred to
the Scriptures as "reliable." Perhaps
the most famous historian of the first
century was Flavius Josephus. In his
works he makes several references to
John the Baptist and Jesus, a fact
which confirms the Biblical record
(based on McDowell, Evidence, p. 67).
Although many ancient historians con-
demn the early Christians for being un-
patriotic (for refusing to serve in the
Roman army) and atheists (for wor-
shipping the only one God instead of
the many thousands the Roman states
required a citizen to pay homage to),
none has condemned their Scriptures.
They all look upon them as histori-
cally accurate.

Modern man must recognize that
the Bible ranks as first-rate history and
is considered as such by most his-
torians. Today's world, however, has
abandoned the concept of absolutes,
and so most men refuse to accept the
absolute demands that the Bible makes
on their lives. In the past, men justi-
fied this rejection of the Bible because
it was only a "fairy tale." Now that
the Bible is being proved historically
accurate, the world has turned to
accepting its historical references with
great reservation and rejecting the
claims it makes on the lives of in-
dividuals. Anyone that does this, how-
ever, is letting his preconceived biases
affect his opinion of the Bible. The
Bible's historical validity demands that
its readers study it objectively.

Modern man is left with a huge
dilemma. This Bible that has proved
itself so accurate requires that he com-
pletely turn his life over to an unseen
God, an action which runs contrary to
his way of thinking. He reasons, "Even
if all these historical references are
true, how can I be sure? I don't want
to take a blind leap of faith." The
Bible's answer is that the faith it re-
quires is not blind. It is based on the
solid evidence of its historical validity.
In this age of no absolutes, man is re-
luctant to trust anything. Although he
may scoff at the Bible, its historical
accuracy demands that every indivi-
dual seriously consider its claims on
his life.

HOW TO GET THINGS DONE by Dr. Richard Strauss

"How to Get Things Done" was
e topic of the commencement ad-
ess given on May 3 by Dr. Richard
rauss, senior pastor of Emmanuel
ith Community Church, Escondido,
lifornia.

By way of introducing his subject,
". Strauss stated: "When a company
mufactures a product, it usually
^blishes a manual describing how to
lerate and maintain its product. We
jve such a book," he continued,
wd made us, and He published a
mufacturer's manual to tell us how
operate most efficiently. It is called
; Bible. This book tells us how to
': things done. What is it you want
accomphsh?"

Following in outline form are
ee scriptural principles he cited:

Do it heartily. Colossians 3:23
states, "And whatsoever ye do, do
it heartily, as to the Lord, and not
unto men." The words "do it
heartily" literally mean "from the
soul." Don't do it haphazardly or
half-heartedly. Put yourself into it.

)MMER 1976

A. Know the importance of goals.
Paul had goals. He said in Phil.
3: 14, "I press toward the mark
(goal)." The goal was stated in
verses 9 and 10.

B. Know the importance of plans.
"To fail to plan is to plan to
fail." Formulate your plan for
reaching your goal.

C. Know the importance of dis-
cipline. Discipline keeps the
eye focused on the goal. Ac-
cording to Paul in Phil.
3: 13,14, discipline

1. puts aside things which
keep us from fulfilling our
purpose,

2. evaluates the progress and
alters the plan as needed,
but

3. does not eliminate all the
fun.

II. Do it happUy. Phil. 2:14 ad-
monishes, "Do all things vwthout
murmurings and disputings,"
literally "without grumbling and
arguing."

A. One of the best ways to fail is
to become a complainer. Not
only wUl you fail to accom-
plish anything significant your-
self, but also you may keep
others from accomplishing
anything either.

B. SmUe! Whistle! Sing! Happi-
ness is contagious. If what you
are doing is so much fun,
others will want to get in on it
too!

III. Do it for the glory of God, "as to

the Lord, and not unto men" (Col
3:23).

A. One must first enjoy a personal
relationship with Him in order
to glorify Him.

B. When anyone acknowledges his
need of Christ and yields to
Him as Savior from sin. He
comes into that life, gives it
new purpose-to glorify Him.

C. Accomplishments done for the
purpose of glorifying God are
eminently successful and ex-
tremely satisfying.

BACCALAUREATE SPEAKER RECEIVES DOCTOR'S DEGREE

Dr. and Mrs. Ian Hav

Speaking at the May 2 baccalau-
reate service, tlie Rev. Ian M. Hay '50
addressed Bryan's class of 1976 on the
subject "The Kind of People God
Uses."

This Bryan alumnus, who is vice
president of the Bryan College Board
of Trustees and the general director of
the Sudan Interior Mission, developed
his theme by showing that God uses
people who do His will. The challenge
to earnestly seek God's will in ord^ to
be used of Him and to achieve His
highest purpose constituted the ad-
monition to the graduates as they face
their life's work ahead.

At the conclusion of the service in
a surprise announcement, the honor-
ary degree of doctor of divinity was
conferred upon Mr. Hay. In presenting
him for the degree, Dr. Brian
Richardson, chairman of the faculty
for 1975-76, stated that an honorary
degree is intended to recognize and
call public attention to merit which
the recipient rightfully deserves and al-
ready possesses by virtue of his charac-
ter, attainments, and service and that
the faculty join heartily in this recog-
nition. After President Mercer con-
ferred the degree and presented Dr.
Hay his diploma. Dr. John B. Bartlett,

vice president and academic dean, in-
vested him with the scarlet and gold
doctoral hood.

As the son of missionary parents
Dr. Hay grew up in Africa and with hii
wife joined Sudan Interior Mission ir
1951 to return after his education ir
America to the field of Nigeria. Fron.
the ranks as a missionary and teacher
he was given responsibility successively
as field secretary for West Africa ir
1958, director of North America ir
1965, deputy general director in 1971
until November 1975, when he wa:
elected to the highest office, that o:
general director, in his mission.

Mrs. Hay is also a graduate o
Bryan College in the class of 1951 ; anc
their daughter, Brenda Hay Kelly, anc
her husband, Larry, join the roll o
Bryan alumni as members of the c'as
of 1976. The Hay's son, Bobby, wa
also present for the occasion.

This baccalaureate service hac
special significance in the initial use ol
the Rudd Memorial Chapel, which
though not completed, was made
serviceable by the provision of over ;
thousand folding chairs to accommo
date a capacity crowd.

Twenty-six students exhibited
more than eighty works of art in
Bryan's third annual student art show
in the third-floor reading room of the
administration building April 18
through May 2.

The exhibition was judged by Miss
Ruth Kantzer, associate professor of
English. The following named students
won awards in their respective divi-
sions:

DIVISION

Drawing
Susan Shields
Kettering, Ohio
Dawn Moore
Wichita, Kansas
linda Ovensen
New HoUand, Pa.
Carol Brooks
Mt. Qemens, Mich.

Sculpture
Susan Schmid
Penns Grove, NJ.

Painting
Linda Pedde
StevensviUe, Mich.
Beth Davies
Jackson, Miss.
Louise Burt
Lima, Peru

PLACE

1st & 2nd

3id

Honorable
Mention

1st, 2nd, 3rd

Honorable
Mention

UHIM AKl snuvY ■

Ceramics

linda Liebig

1st

Dayton, Tenn.

Linda Rowland

2nd

Hutchinson, Kansas

David Marshall

3rd

Savannah, Ga.

Linda Liebig

Honorable

and

Linda Rowland

Mention

INCENTIVE SCHOLARSHIP
WINNERS

Two students were awarded in-
centive scholarships for having
secured from family and friends the
highest number of contributions for
auditorium chairs at S50 each in
the new Rudd Chapel. The students
are David Moniz, of Smith's Parish,
Bermuda, who received first prize
of $250 for the contribution of 35
chairs, and Vickey Hudson, of
Dayton, Tenn., who received sec-
ond prize of $100 for 11 chairs.
The scholarships were provided by
the Chattanooga chapter of the ^
Bryan Alumni Association.

Linda Pedde

ALUMNI
HOMECOMING

OCTOBER 1-3

Alumni Banquet

Saturday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.

Bicentennial Hall

Rudd Memorial Chapel

BRYAN LIFE

RUDD CHAPEL PROGRESS UPDATED

"Have you noticed the chapel as
you drive north on the bypass? It cer-
tainly is a beautiful sight!" We hear
this comment daily from townspeople
and visitors and from friends who,
coming to the campus for the first
time, spot the chapel in the distance as
they are approaching town from the
south. The three streamlined Gothic
arches make the facade of the Rudd
Memorial Chapel a striking picture.

Although the completion date
given by the Equitable Church
Builders of Nashville, the general con-
tractors for the Rudd Memorial, is the
middle of October, project engineer
Jim Kelley predicts the building will
be ready for occupancy September
first.

Major interior utility contracts, in-
cluding heating, air conditioning, elec-
tricity, and plumbing, are nearing com-
pletion. The beamed ceiling of the
auditorium proper, stained and var-
nished with several coats, has a beauti-
ful final goldtone luster. Plastering of
the auditorium walls is nearly com-
pleted, and the sealer coat has been
applied to all ground-floor walls. Ceil-
ing installation has begun, and the
working crews are scheduled to finish
this task in a period of two weeks.
Ceramic tile installation in the rest-
room areas is completed. Sun-copper
carpet has been ordered to comple-
ment the sunstream gold-tone walls in
the auditorium proper, the balcony,
and the music studios. Green-tone car-
pet has been ordered to match the avo-
cado-mist walls in the classrooms, the
band room, the choir room, and the
music practice rooms on the ground-
floor level. The opera-type seats for
the auditorium have been ordered in
burnt orange to complement the car-
peting and the walls.

Gifts toward the completion of the
project continue to come in daily. The
chapel chair project, inaugurated as a
part of the Mercer 20-year celebration,
moves steadily ahead. Toward the
overall goal of S42,000, 540,000 has
been received to date, $7,500 having
been raised by the students. The
trustees of the college-all of whom
have been very generous, having al-
ready contributed over 5200,000 to
the chapel project— voted at their
spring meeting to furnish the carpet
for the Rudd Memorial. Approximately
$290,000 is still needed to complete
the total chapel project, including the
pipe organ. Memorial opportunities are
still available. Inquiries should be di-
rected to Dr. John B. Bartlett, vice
president of Bryan College.

by John B. Bartlett

RUDD MEMORIAL CHAPEL

Current Status of Income and Expenditures
June 7, 1976

INCOME

51,028,000

891,000

681,000

Gifts and
Pledges

Total Gifts to
Date

EXPENDITURES

$1,028,000 Building Fur-

nished and
Equipped*

904,000 Basic Bufld-

ino

655,000

Advisory Committee

Alumni

Faculty and Staff

Friends

Foundations

Trustees

Interest

Totals

PLEDGED

S 70,732.00
134.893.57
34,675.00
263,055.57
125,000.00
232,778.95

S861,135.09
30,000.00

5891,135.09

Total E X-
penditures to
Date

PAID

S 52,362.50

93,974.02

18,797.60

227,721.54

62.500.00

195,488.95

5650.844.61
30,000.00

5680,844.61

Interior furnishings, instructional equipment, and paved parking 5124,000.
(Does not include pipe organ for auditorium.)

SUMMER 1976

Campus
Review

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CHAPEL SPEAKERS

In his thirty-fourth message since
his eighty-ninth birthday last Novem-
ber, Dr. R. G. Lee was the featured
Bryan Founders' Day speaker on
March 17. This pastor-emeritus of
famed Bellevue Baptist Church, Mem-
phis, and former president of the
Southern Baptist Convention spoke to
the college chapel audience on "The
Name of Jesus." At a luncheon in his
honor, he spoke to ministers and their
wives from Rhea County. In a com-
munity-wide evening bicentennial ser-
vice at the First Baptist Church, at
which delegations from seventeen
churches were recognized. Dr. Lee
brought his third message of the day.
He is most famous for his sermon en-
titled "Payday Someday," which he
has preached more than 1,800 times.

Dr. Lee is pictured to the right of
Dr. Brian Richardson, head of the
Christian education department, at the
Bryan chapel assembly.

Bryan observed a day of prayer on
Tuesday, March 23, led by a well-
known area minister. Rev. Ansell T.
Baker, pastor of First Baptist Church,
Athens, Tenn., who gave inspirational
messages in morning and evening ses-
sions. Other events of the day included
individual Bible study and prayer and
group prayer with each class being led
by its president. Administration, facul-
ty, and staff met in prayer session led
by Dr. Ralph Paisley, associate profes-
sor of biology.

Bryan trustee W. Earle Stevens,
pastor of First Evangelical Church,
Memphis, was featured speaker for the
Bible Doctrine series, March 30-April
1. Former pastor of Westminster Pres-
byterian Church, Chattanooga, Mr.
Stevens is well-known in the Chatta-
nooga-Dayton area. His messages,
based on Psalm 139, dealt with those
attributes of God which are set forth
in the Psalm— omnipotence, omni-
science, and omnipresence— especially
relating these to the daily lives of be-
lievers.

Dr. N. A. Woychuk, founder and
executive director of the Bible
Memory Association, St. Louis, Mo.,
was chapel speaker on April 5. BMA
holds Bible camps in eight locations in
North America. This Bible memory
program began thirty-two years ago
with an enrollment of 575 in the tri-
state area around Shreveport, La.,
where Dr. Woychuk was a pastor. In
1975 the enrollment reached 42,925.
Of those enrolling, 75 percent com-
pleted the course. Dr. John Anderson,
professor of ancient languages at
Bryan, has been a frequent teacher at
the Cleveland, Ga., BMA camp.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Dr. Irving L. Jensen, professor of
Bible and head of the department of
Bible, is the author of a new series of

books entitled Jensen Bible Charts,
published by Moody Press.

The three-volume set contains a
total of 228 charts designed for use in
teaching as overhead transparencies
and ditto masters. Eight actual trans-
parencies are included with the set.

Useful also in personal Bible study,
all of the charts deal with some specif-
ic subject, such as the plan of the
tabernacle and the temple. Some
sketch the entire scope of the Bible, \
such as "God's FamOy Through the
Ages." Volume I of the set is a general
survey of the Bible. Volume II covers
the Old Testament; and Volume III,
the New Testament in greater detail, i

Dr. Jensen is also author of the
Moody Press Bible Self-Study Guides, \
widely used in group and personal
Bible study. Independent Bible Study,
Enjoy Your Bible, and several volumes
in the Everyman's Bible Commentary
Series.

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Dr. John B. Bartlett, vice president
and academic dean, represented the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools in evaluating the academic
program of Paul Quinn College in]
Waco, Texas. This was Dr. Bartlett'sj
first appointment to an evaluating ;
team.

Two Bryan faculty members are
listed in the 1976 edition of Out-
standing Young Men of America. They
are Dr. Brian Richardson, associate
professor of education and head of thai
department of Christian education,
and Gary Phillips, instructor in Bible
and Greek.

Dr. Richardson, who has been at
Bryan since 1972, received the B.A.
degree from CampbellsvUle College
and the M.R.E. and Ed.D. degrees
from Southwestern Baptist Theologi-
cal Seminary. He was faculty chairman
this past year and is pastor of the Sale
Creek Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Phillips is a graduate of Baylor
School in Chattanooga and of Vander-
bilt University, where he was an inter-
departmental major. In 1975 he re-
ceived the Th.M. degree from Dallas
Theological Seminary and was
honored with the Rollin Thomas
Chafer Award in Apologetics.

In addition to teaching a young
couples' class at Sale Creek Presby-
terian Church, he also teaches a career
singles' Bible class every Monday night
at Coach John Reeser's home in Day-
ton.

BRYAN LIFE

Mr. Phillips is pictured with his
wife, Betsy, and the plaque which he
was awarded on Honors Day when he
was named Teacher of the Year by the
student body. Mrs. Phillips was a mem-
ber of the 1976 graduating class.

*****

Miss Virginia Seguine, director of
library services, began a one-year leave
of absence from the college starting
June 1. She will be associated with the
Campbell-Reese Evangelistic Associa-
tion of Cambridge, Ontario, working
in advance crusade organization. She
was honored at a faculty supper on
March 19 and was presented with a
gift from the faculty by Dr. Mercer.
On Honor's Day Miss Seguine was pre-
sented the Student Body Appreciation
Award.

Dr. Richard Barnhart, associate
professor of mathematics, and Glen
Liebig, registrar and associate aca-
demic dean, represented Bryan at a
curricular reform workshop in Wash-
ington, D.C., in March.

Sponsored by the Council for the
Advancement of Small Colleges
(CASC) and funded by the W. K. Kel-
logg Foundation, the workshop pro-
vided opportunity for faculty and ad-
ministrators from small colleges to
study recent innovations in college
curriculum and consider curricular re-
forms designed to meet the needs of
college students through the remainder
of the twentieth century. Outstanding
consultants in education related a
variety of topics to the general theme
of the workshop.

This summer a special faculty task
force began the first major study of
the general education program of the
college since 1969. The task force,
consisting of Dr. Richard Barnhart,
Mrs. Mayme Bedford, Dr. Paul Biggers,
Dr. Richard Cornelius, Dr. Robert Jen-

kins, Mr. Glen Liebig, and Dr. Brian
Richardson, worked half days from
May 17 through June 11 to develop
more specific objectives for general
education, evaluate the effectiveness
of the current program, and recom-
mend program changes which give
promise of fuller realization of
objectives.

The findings and recommendations
of the task force will be presented to
the faculty in the fall and then to the
Board of Trustees. This study should
help Bryan College to fulfill better its
role as a Christian liberal arts college.

SUMMER MISSIONS PROGRAM

Spending a summer on the mission
field with established missionaries will
occupy most of the vacation period
for four Bryan students who are serv-
ing under the Summer Missions Pro-
gram (SMP) with support from their
fellow students.

Cathy Robertson, a junior from
Richmond, Va., and Sue Maxey, a
sophomore from Glen Allen, Va., who
are pictured (left to right) with Mr.
and Mrs. Wilford Watson, representa-
tives of the World-Wide Evangelization
Crusade, will travel with the Watsons
to Colombia and Venezuela for youth
meetings and other evangelism.

Two other Bryan co-eds supported
by SMP are Mary Kirtley, a sophomore
from Hamburg, Iowa, who will go to
Nicaragua under the American Baptist
Mission Board, and Cathie Robbins, a
graduating senior from Murfreesboro,
Tenn., who will work with Child
Evangelism Fellowship in Fairfax, Va.

U.S. CAPITOL MODEL

A scale model replica of the
United States Capitol was displayed
for several days m the lobby of the
Administration Building during the
closing weeks of the academic year.
BuUt by Mr. Charles McCrorie's Ameri-
can history class at the Rhea County

High School, Dayton, the model is 6
feet long, 4 feet wide, and 35 inches
high. Weighing approximately 200
pounds, it is made almost entirely of
wood-base products. Work on the
replica began in January of last year
with the gathering of information and
drawing of plans. The model was com-
pleted and put on display in March of
this year.

TENNESSEE
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

Gary Degerman, a rising senior
from International Falls, Minnesota,
was elected president for the next
annual meeting of the collegiate divi-
sion of the Tennessee Academy of
Science, East Tennessee section.
Dottle Johnson, a rising junior from
Athens, Tennessee, was chosen secre-
tary.

Three Bryan students— Pam
Ingram, of Soddy, Tennessee; Joseph
Chu, of Dayton; and Sue Ridgely, of
Glen Burnie, Maryland— presented
papers at this year's meeting of the
Academy at Lincoln Memorial Univer-
sity in Harrogate, Tennessee. The
papers represented their work and that
of Tim Faugl, Glenn Porcella, David
Hobson, Randy Ballard, and Gary
Degerman.

DANDILEMES III

Commemorating the American
Bicentennial and the Fiftieth Anni-
versary of the Scopes Evolution
Trial and the homegoing of William
Jennings Bryan, this 148-page
anthology of Bryan College student
writing includes essays, poems,
stories, literary studies, and miscel-
laneous prose on a variety of topics
and is illustrated by eight photo-
graphs of local scenes. The book is
issued under the auspices of the
English Department and sells for
$3.25 (plus 25c for mail orders).
Make out checks to Bryan College
and send orders to Bryan CoOege
Bookstore, Dayton, TN. 37321.

SUMMER 1976

MERCER APPRECIATION DAY

Theodore C. Mercer Day was pro-
claimed throughout Rhea County on
April 2 in recognition of Dr. Mercer's
twenty years of service to Bryan Col-
lege as its fourth president. At an im-
pressive afternoon ceremony on the
Rhea County Courthouse lawn. State
Representative Bill Carter presided and
read a special congratulatory citation
to Dr. Mercer, passed in the House of
Representatives of the Eighty-Ninth
General Assembly of the State of
Tennessee, the Senate concurring, and
signed by the Speaker of the House,
the Speaker of the Senate, and the
Governor.

Mr. Clyde Roddy, Dayton City
Manager, and Mayor Gerald P. Henley,
of Spring City (Dr. Mercer's home
town), read citations representing the
two cities of Rhea County and recog-
nizing Dr. Mercer's efforts and in-
fluence in community leadership.

The afternoon ceremony also in-
cluded patriotic selections by the Col-
lege Chorale and Symphonic Band,
featuring an original composition,
"Mercer's March," written for the
band and directed by Professor
William R. Boyd.

At a testmonial dinner in the eve-
ning at the college. Dr. and Mrs. Mercer
received congratulations from approxi-
mately 400 friends, and brief presenta-
tions were made by representatives of
the larger college constituency. Appre-
ciation speeches were made by George
McLawhon, president of the Student
Senate; Dr. Brian Richardson, chair-
man of the Faculty; Mrs. Betty
Wynsema, secretary to the president;
Ralph Green, president of the Alumni
Association; Dr. J. Wesley McKinney,
chairman of the Board of Trustees; BUI

Carter, state representative; and John
Stophel, Chattanooga attorney.

Dr. McKinney presented to Dr.
and Mrs. Mercer the keys to a 1976
Oldsmobile Delta 88 as a gift from the
college in recognition of their out-
standing service. In addition, a
Memory Book was presented which
contained scores of letters from such
dignitaries as President Ford;
Tennessee's two U. S. Senators, Bill
Brock and Howard Baker; the third
district congressional representative,
Mrs. Marilyn Lloyd; Dr. BUly Graham;
and many long-time friends, including
alumni and former students.

During the twenty years of the
Mercer administration, God has
blessed the college in many ways. The
student body has grown from 235 to
620, and campus facilities have been
greatly expanded. The administration
building was completed; three new
dormitories were constructed; a music
building, a gymnasium, tennis courts,
baseball and soccer fields were added;
twenty apartments were acquired for
married student housing; and the new
Rudd Memorial Chapel is scheduled
for completion in the fall. Cafeteria
and library facilities have been im-
proved and expanded. Regional ac-
creditation was achieved in 1969. A
dedicated and well-trained faculty and
an enlarged administrative staff have
been maintained. The college is
moving toward its goal of a student
body of 800 full-time students, the
number set as a planning limit by the
college Board of Trustees.

Most significant to alumni, friends,
and faithful supporters, many now of
an older generation, Bryan is still
Bryan!

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

At the May commencement Mr.
and Mrs. WUham HOleary of nearby
Spring City, Tenn., were given the Dis-
tinguished Service Award for more
than fifty years of service to their
community. The Award, the first ever
to be presented by the college, is equi-
valent to an honorary degree.

A Rhea County native who had to
leave home to get a job, Mr. HUleary
was motivated to return to his home
area to establish an industrial plant
which would help stem the out-migra-
tion of the area's young people by pro-
viding employment at home. Starting
with one building in a former straw-
berry patch bought with $500 worth
of stock in the new business, the
Southern SUk MUls now sprawls over
thirty-five acres and provides employ-
ment for 600, an achievement which
has definitely helped to reverse the
out-migration trend in this area.

Mrs. HUleary, who has supported
her husband in all his endeavors, en-
joyed an outstanding career as a
banker, serving more than fifty years
with the Bank of Spring City, many of
these years as president and as chair-
man of the board.

The fact that the community now
enjoys the service of two doctors can
be traced to the HUlearys' generosity
in the erection of a building to house
the Spring City Health Clinic on land
donated in 1973 by Southern SUk
MUls.

The award presentation was felt to
be appropriate for the bicentennial
year, for Mr. and Mrs. HUleary have
demonstrated in their own lives those
characteristics which have contributed
to the realization of the American
dream in our nation's history— vision,
courage, persistence, hard work, and
personal integrity.

BRYAN LIFE

iONORIS CA USA • HONORIS CA USA • HONORIS CA USA • HONORIS CA USA • HONORIS CA USA • HONORIS CA USA

ACADEMIC HONORS

Graduation with official honors is
based on the student's cumulative
grade-point average with a minimum
of four semesters (or sixty semester
hours) at Bryan. On Commencement
Day, May 3, the following students
were graduated with honors:

Summa cum laude (3.750-4.000)

*Kenneth Baker, Orlando. Fla.

Jonathan L. Bennett,
Oeveland Heights, Ohio

Drew W. Blankman,
International Falls, Minn.

Pamela D. Dekker. Dunwoody, Ga.

Rebecca J. Ely, Jimma, Ethiopia
*Gerard R. Fonte, Metairie, La.

Mary E. Janke, Berrien Center, Mich.
*George B. McLawhon, Jr., Port St. Joe, Fla.
*David M. Mercer, Dayton, Tenn.

John E. Rowland, Albion, Ind.
*Rebecca B. Spoede, Dayton, Tenn.
*Stephen J. Strauss, Escondido, Calif.

Sarali N. Taylor Peterson, Winona Lake, Ind.

Magna cum laude (3.500-3.749)

*Randall H. Ballard, Trenton, Ga.
*Verna G. Carney, Little Hocking, Ohio
*Daniel B. Decker, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Margaret H. English, Kinsale, Va.
*Emily L. Hall, Roanoke, Va.
*Edward L. James, Hancock, Md.
*Marjorie Susan Ridgely, Glen Burnie, Md.

Lois Tarbotton, Glen Mills, Pa.

Cum laude (3.250-3.499)

*Rebecca A. Barge, Macon, Miss.

Vicky Bentley, Dyersburg, Tenn.

Phebe L. Blount, Hampton, Va.
*Gary W. CrisweU, Richmond, Va.

Deborah F. Hampton, Spring City, Tenn.

Christopher R. Hatten, Huntington, W.Va.

Linda J. Schiller Hayes, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Lynn I. Johnson, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Deborah A. Kier, Beaumont, Tex.

Carolyn L. O'Connor,
South Yarmouth, Mass.

Ralph Craig Samuelsen, Lapeei, Mich.

Paula M. Purser, Dayton, Tenn.
*Robin G. Rummel, Durham, N.C.

Grace Sturms, Marion, Wis.

Sue Ann Timblin, Lower Burrell, Pa.

Beatrice F. Turner, Quito, Ecuador

Other High Averages

Nine other seniors with high grade
point averages who were enrolled at
Bryan for less than the four semesters
or sixty semester hours required for
official honors achieved averages at the
honors level for the period enrolled as
follows:

'Robert Alarid, Belen, Costa Rica (3.842)
Connie Alderman, St. Albans, W. Va. (3.607)
Daniel Alderman, St. Albans, W. Va. (3.621)
Peter Euaene Brooks, Crato, Ceara,

Brazil (3.679)
Craig Bruce, Fulton, Ky. (4.000)
lames Hoover, Kalamazoo, Mich. (3.830)
Steven C. Johnson, Chisholm, Minn. (3.921)
SUzabeth Nowicki, Roselle, 111. (3.568)
Bette TheUig, Pittsfield, Mass. (3400)

Who's Who

The names marked with an asterisk
(*) were also selected for the honor of
being included in this year's Who's
Who in American Colleges and Univer-
sities. These students were chosen by
faculty and administrators on the basis
of academic excellence, character, and
citizenship. In addition to the fifteen
listed above are Terri Pouts, Vero
Beach, Fla., and Mary Jo Hemme, De
Soto, Mo.

UNDERGRADUATE
RECORD EXAMINATION

Each year the Undergraduate
Record Examinations (URE) are ad-
ministered to Bryan seniors for the
sake of comparison with other college
seniors throughout the country. The
tests are given in three basic liberal arts
areas— social science, humanities, and
natural science— and in the major
fields. Listed below are the names of
students whose scores placed them at
or above the 90 percentile rank.

Social Science Percentile Rank

Chris Hatten 99

Steve Strauss 99

Jon Bennett 99

Craig Bruce 98

John Rowland 98

Steve Johnson 93

Gary CrisweU 92

June Ferry 92

Humanities

Rebecca Spoede 99

John Rowland 97

Lucy Lieb 95

Chris Hatten 94

George McLawhon 93

Sue Ridgely 93

Randy Ballard 92

Margaret English 92

Steve Strauss 92

Steve Johnson 92

Natural Science

Randy BaUard 98

Rebecca Ely 97

David Mercer 96

Beatrice Turner 96

Tim Faugl 93

Kennedi Baker 92

Margaret English 92

Highest combined total
areas— Steve Strauss.
Advanced Tests
Steve Strauss
Kenneth Baker

Jon Bennett

Lucy Ijeb

Rebecca Spoede
Doug Clark

Margaret English

George McLawhon

Susan Ridgely

Lois Tarbotton

Rebecca Ely

score for all three

99 History

98 History

99 Business

97 Literature

97 Literature
92 Literature

94 Music

98 Mathematics

95 Psychology

97 Education

98 Biology

DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS

Bible and Christian Education

Those who graduated with a de-
gree in Christian education and were
awarded the diploma of the Evan-
gelical Teacher Training Association
are the following: Gary Amos, Ten
Mile, Tenn.; Drew Blankman; Rick
Famey, Lowell, Ind.; Emily Hall; Glen
Hansen, Anna Maria, Fla.; Grace
Howard, Schaefferstown, Pa.; Larry
Kelley, Akron, Ohio; Mike Maikowski,
Grand Rapids, Mich.; Luanne Maze,
Camanche, Iowa; Randall Paeplow,
Lake Placid, Fla.; Betsy Woodard
Phillips, Dayton, Tenn.; Susan Smith,
Hogansville. Ga.; Gregory Thayer, San
Jose, Calif.; and Bette Theilig.
The F. R. Rogers Senior Award in Bible-
Gerard Fonte (awarded to the senior
who has had at least four semesters of
Bible at Bryan, who excels as a Bible
student, and who manifests true conse-
cration )
Christian Education Department Senior
Award— Drew Blankman

Business

Senior Business Award and Wall Street Jour-
nal Business Senior Award-Jon Bennett

Chemistry

Highest Achievement, First-Year Chemis-
try-Tom Hatten, Huntington, W. Va.

Education

Mrs. E. B. Arnold Student Teacher Award-
Mary Janke

English

Freshman English Term Paper Awards:

Section A-Susan D. Shields, Kettering,
Ohio-"Tragedy From Within" (A
study of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus)

Section B-Dean J. Ferguson, Mt.
Laurel, N.J.-'Ts Samson a Type?"
(A study of Milton's Samson
Agonistes)

Section C-Linda Miller, Kalona, lowa-
"The Heart of the Forest in Haw-
thorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'
and Tlie Scarlet Letter "

Section D-Don A. Neumann, Dayton,
Tenn.-"Tlie Hand of God in His-
tory: A Plot Study of Measure for
Measure" (Shakespeare)

Section E-Anthony E. Castlen,
Spencer, Tenn. — "Heroes and
Dreams: A Prelude to Suicide" (A
study of Hemingway's Tlie Old Man
and the Sea)

Section F-Priscilla R. Chapman, Banner
Elk, N.C.-"Portia, Shakespeare's
Perfect Woman" (A study of The
Merchant of Venice)

Section G-David W. Drake, Hamilton,
Ohio— "The Religious Significance in
the Land of Eldorado" (A study of
Voltaire's Candide)

Section H-Debra C. Woodworth,
Monroe Center, III.— "Conflict: Cap-
tain in Vere's Emotions and Intellect
in a Crisis" (A study of Melville's
Billy Budd)

SUMMER 1976

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COVER PHOTO
IDENTIFICATION:

Occupying a prominent position
at the entrance of the Bryan cam-
pus, the new Rudd Memorial
Chapel, which was put into full
use at the opening of the fall
semester, is a focal point for daily
activity with its classrooms and
offices for the fine arts depart-
ment and its auditorium for
chapel and other assemblies.

(Photo by Cunnyngham Studio,
Dayton, Tenn.)

Volume 2

Fall 1976

Number 1

I WAS A SUMMER MISSIONARY: Opthalmologist and Bryan trustee
shares his medical skills in the Dominican Republic. By J. Wesley
McKinney, M.D.

FINANCIAL BONDAGE: WHAT IT IS: A leading financial counselor ex-
plains various conditions which spell financial bondage. (A sequent article
in the next issue will answer the questions of what to do about it.) By
Larry Burkett

A PERSONAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Our freedom in
Jesus Christ can give us insight into our responsibilities as Christians. By
Mickey Park

SEXUAL PURITY: DOING THE WILL OF GOD: Purity of life is
absolutely vital in doing the will of God. By Robert Andrews

CAMPUS REVIEW: A bird's-eye view of campus activities together with
faculty happenings and other news of interest.

SPORTS: Soccer, volleyball and cross-country teams get the new athletic
season into swing.

CAMPUS CALENDAR: Coming events for the new school year, including
the basketball and soccer schedules.

I have seen a miracle

in God's provision for the Rudd Memorial
Chapel. From the birth of the idea in the
hearts and minds of the alumni three days
after Dr. Rudd's death in October 1970
until today, the process has been like that
of a compact rosebud which has grown
and developed into a beautiful mature
flower. Now the building has been put into use and lacks only some of the
furnishings. It is good news indeed that the fund-raising is also about 85% complete.
The covers of this magazine show you how handsome the building is from the
outside and where we stand in the matter of money. I hope that you as one of our
readers will undergird the completion of this project with your prayers. If you are
not actively involved financially in this matter at present, I hope you will want to
have a part in providing the final dollars needed so that this building can be
dedicated free of debt.

Theodore C. Mercer

I WAS A SUMMER MISSIONARY

by J.Wesley McKinney, M.D.

In June of this year, 1976, the
Lord gave me the opportunity to serve
Him in a foreign mission with talents
which He had given me. The project
was a two-week medical eye clinic con-
ducted by the Cliristian Medical
Society in the Dominican Republic.

The Christian Medical Society is a
national organization of Christian
physicians and medical students whose
purpose is to serve and be a witness for
Jesus Christ in medical work w^orld-
wide. In addition to maintaining con-
tact with its members who ser%-e nu-
merous American religious denomina-
tions, it also organizes and staffs medi-
cal and dental clinics in several
countries w^here medical care is out of
reach of a large part of the population.
The clinics are staffed by volunteer
specialists from the United States, who
pay their own plane fare, room, and
board and many of whom take their
teen-age children and wives to give val-
uable auxiliary' ser\'ices.

Because eye care is a particular
need where there are so few
ophthalmologists to treat the many
blinding eye diseases, such as cataracts,
glaucoma, and pterygium, two-week
clinics at six-month inter\'als are con-
ducted each year by the Medical
Group Missions project of the
Christian Medical Society in the
Dominican Republic. This country, oc-
cupying the eastern two-thirds of the
island of Hispaniola, with Haiti oc-
cupying the western one-third, is pop-
ulated by four million Spanish-speak-
ing, mostly black people.

The mission clinic I visited is lo-
cated thirteen mUes west of Santo
Domingo on unimproved roads. The
mission compound consists of the
summer home and outlying buildings
of the former dictator, Gen. Trujillo,
who was assassinated fifteen years ago.
The buildings have been refurbished
for living quarters and working areas
of the clinic. Living was reasonably
comfortable, except for the fact that
the running water often did not run
and the lights often went out. .A.ir con-
ditioning was furnished by the breeze
always blowing from the Caribbean.
Meals, including much tropical fruit,
were adequate.

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The personnel for the clinic, sLxty-
five in all, consisted of the local
missionary directors and missionaries
with their children who came to help
with translation, together with the vol-
unteers from the United States, includ-
ing seven ophthalmologists, several
optometrists, nurses, wives, and teen-
age children. Each morning at 6:30 we
assembled for breakfast, followed by a
short devotional and instruction
period. We dispersed to our several
posts at 7: 15 a,m.

People came from all over the
country and even from Haiti to see the
eye doctors. They arrived on foot, by
burro, bus, or taxi. The line began to
form at 4:00 in the morning and soon
extended far down the road. In turn,
groups of them were seated on a large
porch where their complaints were
heard and recorded for the ophthal-
mologists. While they waited, a local
missionary' gave them the gospel to-
gether with spiritual songs over a loud
speaker. Tracts were passed out and
invitations given to take a correspon-
dence Bible course. About ten per cent
signed up for a course.

The patients were then brought for
examination to the ophthalmologists
not operating that day. Some needing
only simple eye glasses for reading
were sent to choose them from a large
collection of used glasses contributed
by many individuals and organizations
in the U.S. Others were sent to the
refraction sections for more thorough
testing for the complicated eye-glass
problems, and stiU others were held
for further medical examinations, for
treatment, or for surgery. The surgical
schedule quickly filled up for the
operating ophthalmologists of the day.
The ladies took turns testing the
patients' vision with the help of
missionary- children translating.

Eye surgery was performed each
day at the clinic in an air-conditioned
van furnished by a foundation in
Dallas, Texas, and in the general hospi-
tal in San Cristobal eight miles from
our compound. Temporary glasses
were fitted on the second day after
operation. In nine days six doctors
performed 100 eye operations for
cataracts, cross-eyes, glaucoma, and
pterygium. Unfortunately, several eyes
had to be removed on account of in-
curable diseases.

In ten working days we examined
4,350 patients, dispensed 3,000 pairs
of eye glasses, and operated on 100
eyes.

On the day after the clinic was
closed, a Une of patients, along with a
large number already diagnosed as
needing operations, had to be told
that, because we were physically
unable to treat them at that time, they
should return for the January 1977
clinic.

.Although the work was arduous
and even exhausting, we all agreed that
it was well worth the effort: for it was
a means of demonstrating God's love
and of supporting the missionaries'
endeavors to bring the healing message
of Jesus Christ to the people. The
Christian fellowship among the partici-
pants was great.

Gloria a'Dios!

Dr. McKinney,
prominent ophthalmol-
ogist of Memphis, has
been a member of the
Bryan board of trustees
since 1950 and chair-
man since 1969, He
also serves as a member
of the board of Mid-South Bible College in
Memphis and Reformed Theological Semi-
nary in Jackson, Miss. He is an elder of the
Second Presbyterian Church of his home
city and is active in the Christian Medical
Society as illustrated by this article on his
experience as a summer medical missionary.
A member of various professional societies
in the field of medicine, he served thirteen
years as secretary-treasurer of the Pan-
.American .Association of Ophthalmology.
He holds the bachelor of science degree
from the University of Tennessee at Knox-
viUe and the doctor of medicine from the
University of Tennessee College of Medi-
cine.

FALL 1976

Financial Bondage:

What It Is

by Larry Burkett

(A two-part article to be continued in the next issue)

Every year, thousands of people encumber themselves
with heavy mental burdens in the area of finances. Are
you one of them?

In Biblical times, financial bondage actually meant
physical bondage. If someone failed to repay an obligation,
he was thrown into prison for the rest of his life and per-
haps eventually sold out of prison as a slave. But today
physical bondage has been replaced by mental bondage.
Every year, thousands of people encumber themselves with
heavy mental burdens in the area of finances.

But how can a person tell when he is in financial bon-
dage? If any of the following attitudes apply to you, you
are in bondage:
n ANXIETY FROM OVERDUE BILLS.

A Christian is in financial bondage when he experiences
anxiety produced from overdue bills. In counseling, I find
that as high as 80% of Christian families suffer from over-
spending or have suffered from this malady in the past.
D INVESTMENT WORRIES.

Worrying over investments, savings, money or assets also
causes financial bondage and interferes with the Christian's
spiritual life. Even if these investments are prospering, if
they generate worry, a Christian can be absolutely sure that
he is in bondage.
D "GET RICH QUICK" ATTITUDE.

This individual attempts to make money quickly with
very little applied effort. If the investment requires that a
person assume excessive debts, borrow money to invest, or
deal deceitfuUy with people, that investment is a "get rich
quick" program.

Not only is this attitude prevalent in investments, but it
also surfaces in the home when a family borrows to get
everything they desire rather than saving for the items. It's
important that a Christian assess exactly what his motives
are for financial involvement.

n NO GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT.

Financial bondage also exists when there is no desire for
gainful employment. This area must be assessed in every
Christian's life, for many people who want to "start at the
top" never get started at all. Each of us must have a real
desire for being gainfully employed if we are to accomplish
what God put us on this earth to do.
D DECEITFULNESS.

A Christian is in financial bondage if his basic attitude
includes dishonesty with others in financial matters. This
bondage can occur if, for instance, a family purchases an
appliance on credit knowing that they are already behind in
their average monthly obligations. They are dealing deceit-
fuDy with the supplier.

D GREEDINESS.

Financial bondage can also result from an attitude of
greediness. Someone who is never able to put others first, is
never able to accept a loss when it's necessary, or is always
desiring more than he has, suffers from greed. A person
who cannot put his own wants and desires behind him to
satisfy the needs of others also suffers from this form of
financial bondage.
D COVETOUSNESS.

Financial bondage exists if the Christian's attitude is one
of looking at what others have and desiring it. In our
society, we might call this "keeping up with the Joneses."

D UNMET FAMILY NEEDS,

The "symptoms" for this bondage are almost inexhausti-
ble but are all related to a common attitude— irresponsi-
bility. There is a definite difference between a Christian
who is financially bound because of irresponsibility and one

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who cannot meet family needs because of the circum-
stances surrounding him— such as illness or other unavoida-
ble difficulties. The attitude described here concerns those
who are wanting because of past buying habits and those
who will not meet the needs of their families.
D UNMET NEEDS OF OTHERS.

It is the responsibility of each Christian to supply the
needs of others who cannot do so for themselves. Harry
Truman said of the presidency. "The buck stops here." The
same is true for each Christian. If we see someone going
without, and we close our hearts to him, what kind of love
is that? Of course, God will not lay every need on every
Christian's heart, but He will lay on our hearts specific
needs that we are to meet. Failure to comply results in
bondage.
D OVERCOMMITMENT TO WORK.

A life that is devoted to business pursuits, to the exclu-
sion of all else, is a hfe of bondage. Money is not always the
prime motive for this overcommitment. Often it is ego,
escape, or simply habit that drives a person to such excess.

D SELF-INDULGENCE.

This individual is never able to deny himself a material
desire, but satisfies every whim that comes to mind. A s'elf-
indulger can be identified by one or more of the following
signs:

D MONEY ENTANGLEMENTS.

This bondage is described as "too many irons in the
fire." Someone trapped by entanglements is so "strung
out" that he has to continually apply "band aids" to his
financial ventures. These entanglements become so complex
that continual manipulation is required to keep his whole
financial mess from collapsing. Often someone in this situa-
tion has dealt with so many people unfairly that he can no
longer be an effective witness for Christ, and many times he
has also involved friends in these ventures,
n FINANCIAL UNFAIRNESS.

If a Christian deals unfairly with others, God says he is
in financial bondage. In other words, this is a person who
promotes his own interests to the detriment of others.

A classic example of this kind of bondage is the
Christian who discovers someone in need and takes unfair
advantage of the situation. He may apply so much pressure
that the needy person is forced to accept a poor offer or,
even worse, is forced to borrow from the high-pressure
Christian. This tactic is often used in dealing with recent
widows or with young couples through church-related con-
tacts.

A Christian employer who fails to pay his employees a
fair wage for a fair day's work also falls into this category.
And a Christian who refuses to pay what is owed simply
because he knows that a company is in financial difficulty
and cannot pursue the debt is deahng unfairly. Examples of
this bondage are as varied as individual craftiness.

1. Purchasing without regard for utility.

2. Living a lifestyle characterized by lavishness.

3. Constantly trading cars and appliances for new
models.

4. Having closet after closet full of clothes that are
seldom or never used.

5. Spending money frivolously on virtually any "sale"
item.

D LACK OF COMMITMENT TO GOD'S WORK.

A Christian is in financial bondage if there is no financial
commitment to God's work. We are stewards of our
possessions; God is the owner. The financial commitment
that we give to God is a testimony of His ownership, and
the Christian who fails to give this testimony never
acknowledges that God is the owner.
D FINANCIAL SUPERIORITY.

This attitude often occurs in those who are blessed with
an abundance. Someone who has wealth should think of it
not as an honor or a right, but as a responsibility.
D FINANCIAL RESENTMENT.

The converse of superiority is a Christian in financial
bondage from feelings of resentment because he thinks that
God has not given him what he deserves or desires. Not
only does he covet what others have, but he is basically
resentful toward God for his station in life.

If you have discovered you are in financial bondage or
assess that you might be moving in that direction, the next
article provides God's perspective on how to gain financial
freedom.

Taken from YOUR FINANCES IN CHANGING TIMES by
Larry Burkett and used by permission of the publishers.
Campus Crusade for Christ, Inc. Available at your Christian
bookstore or through Bryan College Bookstore. $3.50

Larry Burkett, a financial coun-
selor formerly with Campus Crusade
for Christ International, is director of
Christian Financial Concepts, Inc.,
Tucker, Georgia. He has been in-
volved in several businesses, teaches
seminars on Christian finances
throughout the United States, and
has a television series called "Your
Finances in Changing Times." The ac-
companying article, "Financial Bondage," was one of four lectures
given at the Bryan faculty-staff retreat held at the Harry Johnson
cottage on Watts Bar Lake just prior to the opening of the faU term.
Mr. Burkett holds the B.S. degree in finance from Rollins College,
Winter Park, Florida.

FALL 1976

Sexual Purity:

Doing the Will of God

by Robert Andrews

Photo Courtesy Haggai Institute

Nearly everywhere in the New
Testament it is assumed that Christians
know what the will of God is. There-
fore the common Biblical command is
to "do the will of God." In order to
enter the kingdom of heaven, do the
wOl of God (Matthew 7:21). Be willing
to do the wiU of God if you wish to
know whether or not Jesus' teaching is
of God (John 7:17). Christians are
told to prove the will of God by not
being conformed, but by being trans-
formed; then they are told that the
will of God is what is acceptable and
perfect, and good (Romans 12:2). We
are told not to be foolish, but to
understand what the will of God is
(Ephesians 5: 17), and in Ephesians 6:6
we are commanded to do the will of
God. The Epistle to the Hebrews talks
about having done the will of God;
this assumes that we know what it is
(Hebrews 10:36)! Then there are

several passages that say specifically
what the will of God is. "Give thanks
always" (I Thessalonians 5:18). Do
right and therefore silence foolish men
(I Peter 2:15). These are both pre-
ceded by the statement that "this is
the will of God."

The Biblical evidence seems abun-
dantly clear that in everything that
matters we know already what the will
of God is. This helps us to crystallize
our thinking about the will of God.
There are two steps to consider: (1) if
we know it, we should do it, and (2) if
we don't know it, it doesn't matter
what we do! In all the really important
aspects of Christianity, we already
know what the will of God is. The
problem is not one of discovering the
will of God; it is doing the will of God.

Any decision that cannot be made
on the basis of doing what we know to
be the will of God, can be decided on

the basis of point two above— if we
don't know it, it doesn't matter what
we do! If it really mattered, God
would have told us what to do. But in
the absence of such direct, inspired,
propositional revelation, we are to use
common sense. Whatever usually helps
us to make decisions should be used in
this case. Don't hesitate to decide and
then woefully declare that you don't
know the will of God. Make a decision
and do it! This is what A. W. Tozer
calls the intelligent choice in his book
How the Lord Leads. He says:

On the surface it appears more
spiritual to seek God's leading than
just to go ahead and do the obvious
thing. But it is not. If God gave you
a watch, would you honor him
more by asking him for the time of
day or by consulting the watch? If
God gave a sailor a compass, would
the sailor please God more by

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kneeling in a frenzy of prayer to
persuade God to show him which
way to go or by steering according
to the compass? Except for those
things that are specifically com-
manded or forbidden, it is God's
will that we be free to exercise our
own intelligent choice.

The Biological Hand-grenade
Stepladder

The first step in doing the wiil of
God is to be certain that one's lifestyle
conforms with these clear, specific in-
structions as to what God expects. The
dating-marriage-sex relationship that
God commands in Scripture is perhaps
the most dangerous part of God's wiU
for Christian young people— dangerous
because young people don't want to
hear what God has to say about the
proper way to conduct a Christian
courtship. What they don't know in
this case can hurt them. It may be
that they refuse to heed God's explicit
instructions because they believe that
it is old-fashioned to be careful about
physical relationships while dating.
That is why I believe that the best ap-
proach to this topic with young people
is to talk about the biological hand-
grenade stepladder. After that, they
are more likely to listen to such pas-
sages as I Thessalonians 4: 1-8.

How many times can a person do
something for the first time? Only
once. A friend and I once launched
out merrily in a small sailboat even
though neither of us knew how to sail.
After several failures, one swim, and
the great glee of all onlookers (the
entire Bryan faculty), we learned how
to manage saU and rudder in harmony.
We were still novices, but we had
learned the fundamentals of sailing.
That was a one-time life experience
that can never be repeated. There are
many things in life that are similar to
hand grenades: they happen only
once. Nobody uses used hand
grenades!

When a couple are dating, there are
many hand-grenade experiences. When
they first hold hands, boom— the bio-
logical hand grenade has gone off!
There can never be another first time
for holding hands. When a couple first
kiss, boom — the biological hand
grenade has gone off! There can never
be another first time for kissing. The
progression leads ever upward along
the stepladder.

In all my counseling experience, I
have never known a couple who could
back down the ladder without the help
of God. Just the opposite seems to be
the norm The physical relationship

progresses and progresses until the
couple break up. When that happens,
both partners are already far up the
ladder. They usually then seek another
partner and begin to climb the ladder
as fast as possible to reach still higher
levels. Is it any wonder that couples
seem to think nothing of deep physical
relationships with casual ac-
quaintances?

Once a person is up the biological
hand-grenade stepladder, he has a deep
dependency on the physical relation-
ship necessary to keep him contented.
But there is no real contentment
because God's basic plan for courtship
has been distorted.

There is nothing more certain than
the will of God for Christian dating
relationships. Far too often couples
need to understand the destructive
effects of the stepladder before they
are willing to listen to God. God wants
us to please Him with our sexual
purity, and He tells us that it is His
will that we be pure (I Thessalonians
4:1-8).

Sex and the Single Christian

A common misconception about
the Bible is that though it strongly
rebukes adultery, it says little about
premarital sex. The truth is that the
Bible speaks plainly about sex and the
single person. WhUe young people
seem confused and uncertain about
premarital sexual relationships, the
Bible says, "This is the will of God,
your sanctification; that is, that you
abstain from sexual immorality" (I
Thessalonians 4:3). For a young
person who wants to do the will of
God, this is his beginning point. Every-
where in the Bible the will of God is
plainly stated. Christians are told to do
His will rather than to find out His will
or seek His will. For the single
Christian young person, God knows
that the most sensitive part of His will
is the sexual purity of the individual.

The Apostle Paul summarizes what
God expects from the single Christian
with three commands. The first com-
mand is that he abstain from sexual
immorality. My experience is that
young people respond to this straight-
forward language with respect. It's
what they expect to hear; it's what
they want to hear. All they require is
someone to speak as plainly as Paul
and say, "This is the will of God ...
abstain from sexual immorality."

The second command is that he
know how to possess his own "vessel";
that is, know how to conduct a
Christian courtship. Young people
need to know how to date successfully
in sanctification and honor. They need

to see successful marriages; they need
to learn by our example. A Christian
single person has an obligation to
know enough to avoid immorality. He
needs to know about "the biological
hand-grenade stepladder." God's will is
that each Christian should know how
to possess his own spouse honorably in
marriage. And to know that, he must
first know how to conduct his court-
ship. Nothing changes drastically after
marriage. The promiscuous person
doesn't suddenly become chaste any
more than the wise, honorable
Christian suddenly becomes immoral.
That is why the Bible insists that the
young person should mold his habits
of purity early in his courtship.

The third command is that the
Christian not defraud his brother in
the matter. How could a person
defraud another person in his dating? I
believe the Holy Spirit is saying that
every person deserves to have a
sexually pure marriage partner. One
who practices promiscuity before
marriage cheats someone of a sexually
pure future marriage partner.

These commands are not given in a
vacuum, but they are accompanied by
the reasons why God expects proper
behavior. The first reason is that God
is the avenger. God is not mocked.
That which some young people think
they are getting away with, God sees.
Second, God says that He has not
called us for impurity, but in sanctifi-
cation. God did not save us in order to
to allow us to sin more freely, but in
order for us to be able to demonstrate
to the world the abundance of a holy
life. Third, the seriousness of this topic
is reflected by the warning that these
commands come from God, not man.
What man thinks does not matter; God
says we are to be pure.

Characteristically Paul blends his
strong warning with an affectionate re-
minder of the extremely serious nature
of this topic: "Brethren, we request
and exhort you." To please God, to do
God's will, Paul urges us to keep our-
selves pure in order that we may excel
still more in our Christian life.

Mr. Andrews, dean
of men and part-time
instructor in the
division of Biblical
studies, is a 1967 gradu-
■'^'^'^^ ate of Bryan. , He holds

ttSl^^^ the M.Div. degree from
^w^^H Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School and the M.A. degree in col-
lege student personnel services from
Temiessee Technological University and is
currently working on a doctoral program at
the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He
is married to the former Lillian Seera '67.

•ALL 1976

A Personal Declaratioi

Freedom is a precious quality of life. Freedom is a
distinctive mark of the Christian. In Christ we have been set
free from the law of sin and death. In Christ we have come
into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. However, many
Christians are living in bondage— bondage found in people
pressure. Christians, singularly and in groups, easOy confuse
convictions with prejudices and preferences and arrange
them in a well-ordered system of procedures as though they
had been thundered from Mt. Sinai. Consequently,
Christians are often guUty of attempting to press others
into their mold. That usually means joining the fellowship
of the miserable. In the light of such pressure, we must
make our Declaration of Independence in Jesus Christ. To
do so is Biblical.

I'M FREE!

I Corinthians 9 is a unique chapter in the Scripture. In it
is contained the Apostle Paul's Declaration of Indepen-
dence. He did not declare his political freedom. He took his
stand for personal freedom as it relates to people pressure.
The principle is stated in verse 1: "Am I not free?" The
original Greek of the New Testament demands a resounding
"Yes, I'm free." In the following verses he speaks six times
of his rights as a Christian, concluding with the sweeping
statement of verse 19: "I am free from all men." The
underlying principle in Paul's life as related to other people
was his freedom. No persons, no groups could press him
into their mold. Neither did the Apostle turn his back on
any because they were not the kind of folks he felt com-
fortable around. He had learned the marvelous freedom in
Christ to be himself as God was molding him into His
image, rather than letting people remake him in their image
and likeness.

Many Christians succumb to the pressure to fit a mold.
Institutions fall in line with certain groups following pre-
scribed witnessing methods, church procedures, standards
of behavior and dress— not all of which are supportable by
Scripture. Sadly, Christians outside these clearly defined
molds are viewed as second-class citizens spiritually, if not
suspected of being apostate. Paul would have rejected such
a mentality.

While declaring his freedom, Paul also revealed the over-
riding motivation of his life. "For though I am free from all
men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the
more." He is, in a word, revealing that he had the heart of a
servant and was wOling to become a slave for the Lord's
sake in order to reach all men with the Gospel of Christ. No
group of people turned him off. No type of individual re-
pulsed him. A part of his freedom in Christ was the ability
to accept people as they were, not as he wished them to be.

Paul did not live in a holy huddle of sweet saints. His
was the real world, full of every type of person imaginable.
In verses 19-23 he describes for us the people who made up
the world he was trying to reach for Christ.

There were the Jews, his own people. "And to the Jews
I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews." What were they
like? The Jews in Paul's day were

1) LEGALISTIC. Their system of do's and don't's was
well prescribed and deadening spiritually. The system
was of greater importance than the substance of the
system.

2) TRADITIONALISTIC. Jesus scathed the religious
leaders for teaching as the doctrine of God the
traditions of men. Their tradition was more impor-
tant than the truth of God. We have such folks
today. Every service must begin with the Doxology,
followed by a sevenfold Amen. Stained glass win-
dows assume the aura of divinity, a far cry from the
simplicity of the worship of those early believers.

3) SELF-RIGHTEOUS. The Jews in Paul's day
measured themselves by themselves and concluded
they were righteous, needing nothing spiritually.

4) BIGOTS. Cultural, racial, religious, and personal
bigotry is not new in our day. It dogged the steps of
Paul throughout his hfe. The Jews in Paul's day
would have made most of us sit in the back of their
city bus.

5) HYPOCRITES. Someone has defined a hypocrite as a
man who is not himself on Sunday. In Paul's day it
would be a man who was not himself on the Sabbath.
Professing godliness, but possessing emptiness, they
played the spiritual game of outward show to be seen
of men.

It is of these people the Apostle Paul said, "If I could, I
would go to Hell for these my kinsmen according to the
flesh" (Romans 9:3). The Jews of Paul's day did not turn
him off; they drove him to his knees as he sought to win
them to Jesus Christ.

The second group of people Paul dealt with are termed
those without law. He is referring to the Gentiles. Paul was
never shaken by extremes. He felt equally at ease with his
legalistic, tradition-bound, self-righteous, bigoted, hypo-
critical kinsmen as he did with the lawless Gentiles. This
was the "do-your-own-thing" crowd. Paul did not raise his
hands in holy horror over their conduct, nor did he draw
his righteous robes around him lest he in some measure be
contaminated by their non-Christian actions. We should
never be surprised at the world acting like the world. It can
really do no other. One of the dangers the Christian world

BRYAN LIFE

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by Mickey Park

today faces is isolationism. I heard of a Christian who
proudly said to another, "I've never had an unsaved man in
my house." There has to be something wrong with that.
The Scripture clearly teaches it is the sinning, godless world
that Jesus came to seek and save. Without assuming the sin
of the world, we must, like Paul, reach that world with the
Gospel.

The third group of people Paul declared his indepen-
dence of and yet to whom he was a servant were those he
termed the weak. "To the weak I became weak, that I
might win the weak." As far as I understand the New
Testament, the strongest Christian in that early church era
was none other than the Apostle Paul. For whatever rea-
sons, the New Testament era possessed an abundance of
weak, immature Christians. Weak, immature Christians tend
to be judgmental, critical, vacillating, and given to
scrutinizing the actions of others with a jaundiced eye.
Paul's ministry was constantly under fire, usually from
weaker Christians, who questioned his authority, his mes-
sage, his right to speak with conviction. But these weaker
Christians did not upset him. "Owe no man anything but to
love one another" is a command of the Word of God. Paul
paid that debt even to these weaker believers, whose
pressure on Paul was enough to make most of us reject
them.

Regardless of the type of person with whom Paul was
dealing, the overriding motivation of his life dominated
him: "that I might by all means save some."

NECESSARY ATTITUDES

Only freedom in Jesus Christ can give us insight into the
responsibility we have as Christians to be a servant to all
while at the same time being free from all men.

Such a lifestyle does not come easily. It is not natural to
be free from all men and yet be a servant of all; it is
supernatural. To permit God to effect such in our lives
demands certain attitudes. These necessary attitudes are
spelled out for us in verses 24-27.

First of all, it requires determination. Paul speaks of
running the race of life to win the prize. "Run in such a
way that you may win." Determination keeps us from giv-
ing up too soon. The Christian life is not a 100-yard dash; it
is an endurance race. Longsuffering toward people is a rare
quality in Christian circles. We must determine before God
that we will be nothing less than free from all. but at the
same time the servant of all, for the Gospel's sake.

Second, such a lifestyle demands discipline. "And
everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control
in all things." In verse 27 Paul speaks of buffeting his body,

or self-control, which is necessary. I have no doubt that
everything in Paul screamed out against being a servant to
all. As a pastor, I have problems with certain passages of
Scripture, such as II Timothy 2:24. There I am commanded
as a servant of God to be gentle to all men. It takes dis-
cipline to be gentle with a member of your flock who has
violated the clear teaching of the Word of God, who has
rejected your counsel, and yet comes to you in desperation,
usually with the same old problem. Gentleness comes hard
in such cases, yet it must for the Gospel's sake.

Third, such a lifestyle takes dwce;77??je«f— understand-
ing the real issues. Paul refers to running with a goal in
mind. He knew his purposes, his direction of life. He did
not run his race aimlessly. During my Bryan College days I
went out for track one year, and only one year. I dis-
covered I was built for comfort, not for speed. At a tri-
angular meet at Emory University, I entered the 220-yard
dash when one of the regular dash men dropped out. My
problem was not aiming for the finish line. I knew where it
was; it just took me too long to get there.

Discernment that gives direction to your life is a
necessary attitude to be free from all men and yet a servant
to all. That discernment determines what the real issues are.
We are not those who are beating the air (v.26). We must
discern the eternal issues of life and death. An older
Christian, taught in the Scripture and experienced in living
with the Lord, commented to me about a truly spiritual
man in our church, "He is such a man of God; if only he
didn't have that beard." Discernment of the real issues is
necessary if we are to live in the freedom we have in Christ
to reach our world with the Gospel.

People do not make you or break you; they expose you.
The world (people) exposed the heart of God to be un-
fathomable love. Our freedom in Christ as it relates to peo-
ple is not just the right to do what we want to do; our
freedom in Christ includes the power to do what we ought
to do. For the Gospel's sake, we ought to be free from all
men— no one turns us off. For the Gospel's sake, we ought
to be the servant of all men— to win them to Christ.

Mr. Park '5 5 is pastor of Shades
Mountain Bible Church, Birmingham, Ala.
He earned the Th.M degree at Dallas Theo-
logical Seminary in 1960. He and his wife,
the former Martha King '57, are parents of
five children. This printed message is one of
five sermons given by Mr. Park at the 1976
summer Bible conference at Bryan.

FALL 1976

Giving While Living

Shown above are Bemyce and Mercer Clementson "at
home" in a characteristic setting, Mr. Clementson enjoy-
ing his newspaper and Mrs. Clementson watering the
flowers. Named Bennerpoint Lodge in a play on their
first names and from its location at the point of faculty
circle, their home was built as a gift to the college under
a life-temire plan.

In the summer of 1972, Mr. and Mrs. Mercer
Clementson moved to Dayton and became a part of the
Bryan College family. Mrs. Qementson states, "Our
building a home here on Bryan campus was an answer to
prayer. We were both retired, and it was time for us to be
relieved of the care of our Chattanooga property. We want-
ed to be free to pursue our hobby of traveUng, and we also
wanted to have a home to come back to in a community of
Christian fellowship." Mr. Qementson explains, "It had
been a dream of mine to live out our days on the campus of
a small coUege and on our death for the property to go to
the college. A big part of our dream was the enrichment
that comes from living in an intellectual, spiritual, and col-
legiate atmosphere. The opportunity to hear outstanding
Christian speakers was a major consideration with us."

Mr. Clementson, now in his 82nd year, first became
acquainted with the name of William Jennings Bryan in
rural Meigs county, Tennessee, when his mother read to
him as a pre-school child from Mr. Bryan's nationally circu-
lated paper. The Commoner. He also recalls with pleasure
hearing W. J. Bryan speak in Chattanooga in 1915 on the
subject "The Value of a Soul." As his custom was on oc-
casion, Mr. Bryan had allowed his audience to decide
whether he should make a political address or speak on a
religious topic. That was in the day before public address
s>'stems, but Mr. Clementson recalls that every word could
be heard distinctly. Mr. Clementson also heard Mr. Bryan
speak in Dayton in July 1925 at the Southern (now First
United) Methodist Church, where he had been advertised to
teach Sunday school. Riding a tram from Chattanooga, Mr.
Clementson arrived to find the church crowded out, people
in the windows, and others in the yard outside.

The Clementsons, now in their fifth year here, have
become involved in community and college affairs and have
made a wide circle of friends. "We have realized fully our
dream in the years we have been here," Mr. and Mrs.
Clementson say.

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Dr. Richard Sewne and Dr. Theodore Mercer
CHAPEL SPEAKER

Dr. Richard Seume. chaplain at
Dallas (Texas) Theological Seminari^
I introduced his four-sermon series at
the Bryan Spiritual Life Conference,
August 25-27, with a question, "Are
you a gimper"!" He illustrated the
meaning of girnper by the life of
Jabez. who was "more honorable than
his brethren" (I Chronicles 4:9). The
term gimper. Dr. Seume stated, was
borrowed from Dr. DeHaan, who in
his Daily Bread pamphlet referred to a
gimper as "one who excels or does
more than others." Dr. Seume sup-
ported his theme with an exhortation
from Matthew 5:47, "What do you
more than others?" and an illustration
from the Samaritan who befriended a
wounded stranger and took him to an
inn where he promised ""whatever thou
spendest more I wiU repay" (Luke
10:35). Dr. Seume challenged the
student body at the beginning of a
new school year to do more— to be a
gimper in sers'ing God in all the activi-
ties at the college.

Well known at Br>'an for his helpful
ministries in the past. Dr. Seume has
spoken to conferences throughout the
United States, Canada, Central
America, Europe, and Africa. He is
author of Shoes for the Road and
numerous articles in Christian periodi-
cals. He holds the B.A. degree from
Wheaton College, the Th.M. from
Dallas Seminan,-. and the D.D. from
Wheaton.

Dr. Seume, who was enthusiasti-
cally received by the college commu-
nity, fulfilled in a ver>" adequate way
the purpose of the annual spiritual life
meetings at the beginning of the

school year in confronting the college
family with the gospel of Jesus Christ
and His claims on the individual
Christian.

50TH ANNIVERSARY

.Mr. and Mrs. George Mercer
Clemenison. II, whose retirement
home is located on Faculty Circle,
were honored at a reception celebrat-
ing their fiftieth wedding anniversary'
on Sunday afternoon and evening,
August 15, at Rhea House, the official
college residence, with President and
Mrs. Mercer ser%'ing as hosts.

A program of music, including
selections sung at the Qementsons'
wedding, was presented by Miss Linda
Mclimish. of Broken Arrow, Okla. She
was accompanied on the piano by Dr.
J. James Greasby, professor of music
at Br\'an. Nearly three hundred guests,
representing nine states besides
Tennessee, greeted the honorees.

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The Clementsons, who are both
retired teachers, were residents of
Chattanooga for forty-five years
before moving to Dayton four years
ago. In recognition of their whole-
hearted involvement in the life of the
college community, the alumni have
bestowed upon them honorary mem-
bership in the Biyan .Alumni .Associa-
tion.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

L. Donald Hill, chairman of the di-
vision of education and psychology',
received the Ph.D. degree with a major
in school psychology from Union
Graduate School, Yellow Springs,
Ohio, on September 9. UGS is the
graduate level division of the Union
for Experimenting Colleges and Uni-
versities and was established in 1969 as

a result of the Union's involvement in
developing alternative forms of higher
education. One of these developments
has been the inauguration of a .non-
traditional, noncampus graduate pro-
gram leading to the Ph.D. degree. The
title of Mr. HHi's dissertation is "The
Need for Child-centered Program
Planning with the Learning Disabled."
His study has been supported through
the sabbatical program of the college.
Mr. HUl has a total of twelve years of
full-time service at the college,
1959-66 and 1971 to the present.

Dr. John C. Anderson, professor of
ancient languages, was one of the
teachers of adults at the Bible Memor>'
.Association's Miracle Camp in
Cleveland. Ga.. July 12-17.

Robert .\ndrews, dean of men and
assistant professor of Greek, was
speaker to high-school-age campers at
the Lake Forest Ranch in Macon,
Miss., July 17-23. The camp is
operated by Richard Barge, father of
Becky Barge '76.

Miss Ruth Kantzer, associate
professor of English, will serve this
year as chairman of the division of
literature and modern languages and as
head of the department of Enghsh and
speech.

FALL 1976

Dr. Brian C. Richardson, associate
professor of Christian education, was
speaker for the Christian Life Con-
ference at Graham Bible College,
Bristol, Tenn., September 7-10. During
the summer Dr. Richardson prepared a
script and workbook to accompany a
new fOmstrip presentation on new-
church-member orientation being pro-
duced by the Baptist Sunday School
Board, Nashville, Tenn.

Miss Rachel Ross, assistant pro-
fessor of speech, attended the
Christian Drama Seminar in Houston,
Texas, July 30 and 31, where she
shared the private viewing of a new
film, "Corrie-Behind the Scenes at
The Hiding Place. "

Dr. Richard Cornelius, professor of
English on sabbatical leave for the first
semester, left for Cambridge, England,
on August 8, with his wife. Donna,
and their children, Craig and Crista.
Dr. Cornelius will do independent
study, research, and writing at Tyndale
House, a residential library for Biblical
research. The Cornelius children will
attend a British school. The family
expects to return home about
December 22.

NEW FACULTY AND STAFF

David L. Wolfe was appointed to
the faculty for 1976-77 as instructor
in mathematics to replace Lloyd J.
Matthes, who resigned. A 1973 honor
graduate of Bryan, Mr. Wolfe earned
the M.A. degree in mathematics at the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
in 1975. He is married to the former
Karen Brodsky, a 1974 Bryan graduate
who is the daughter of Bryan trustee
Morris Brodsky and Mrs. Brodsky, of
Fincastle, Va.

A member of both the track team
and cross-country team as a student at
Bryan, Wolfe set several new course
records here and elsewhere, besides
finishing first in the state
cross-country meet in his senior year.
Chosen most valuable athlete for his
leadership and accomplishment in two
sports, he also was selected for listing
in Who's Who Among Students in
American Universities and Colleges. He
was a member of the Student Senate,
president of Missions in Action, and
one of four students chosen to speak
at graduation in 1973.

Miss Cynthia Chrisfield, formerly
of Spencer, New York, has joined the
staff of the personnel department as
secretary to the dean of students. The
niece of Mrs. Dorothy Seera, wife of
Director of Student Recruitment E.
Walter Seera, she was for the past five
years a civil service stenographer in
Ithaca, New York.

Mrs. Inez C. Neumann has been
employed as a secretary for the
institutional planning, evaluation, and
research project sponsored by the
Council for the Advancement of Small
Colleges, in which Bryan is partici-
pating along with 55 other colleges.
Mrs. Neumann's husband, Don, is a
sophomore. They are parents of
Sandra '75.

Dale E. Linebaugh, a senior major-
ing in psychology, has replaced James
Hughson in the financial aid office as a
counselor and student-work co-
ordinator. A former pastor, evangelist,
and Bible camp director, he lives in
Dayton with his wife. Opal. Their
daughter. Melodic, was school nurse in
1974-75.

Robert L. McCarron, a former
missionary-educator, was appointed
assistant professor of English to fill the
position held last year by Bryan
Shelley '71, who has returned to
graduate study.

After graduating from Moody Bible
Institute in 1956, Mr. McCarron earn-
ed the B.A. degree in literature from
Wheaton (lU.) College in 1958. He re-
ceived the M.A. degree in the teaching

of English from Western Michigan Uni-
versity in 1960 and is now in the final
stages of his Ph.D. program in English
at Indiana University.

From 1962 to 1971 Mr. McCarron
was a missionary in Monrovia, Liberia,
serving with the Sudan Interior
Mission as educational director for the
mission school there. He also served as
chaplain to the First Infantry
Battalion of the Liberian National
Guard from 1963-66. He wrote, pro-
duced, and broadcast a weekly musical
program over the missionary radio
station ELWA and taught Bible classes
at Monrovia Bible Institute. Mr.
McCarron and his wife, Maureen, have
a fourteen-year-old daughter, Pamela.

Miss Betty Ann Brynoff came as in-
structor in English for the first
semester during the absence of Dr.
Cornelius on sabbatical leave. Recently
employed by the Union College En-
vironmental Education Center,
Middlesboro, Ky., Miss Brynoff
formerly taught English and journal-
ism at Good Shepherd School, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior to graduating
from Wheaton College in 1963, she at-
tended Rocky Mountain Bible In-
stitute, was field representative for
Pioneer Girls' Clubs for two years,
church secretary and parish worker for
two years, and spent several summers
in youth camps as counselor and di-
rector. This summer she completed re-
quirements for the M.A. degree in Eng-
lish at Kent State University in Ohio.

Miss Miriam Sailers, a former
assistant in counseling services,
assumed new responsibilities as head
resident at Huston Hall, a women's
dormitory. She will continue her
teaching responsibilities as instructor
in the education-psychology depart-
ment.

James E. Hughson, formerly
veterans' counselor and student-work
coordinator, is now serving as assistant
to the dean of students and head
resident of Bryan Village.

BRYAN LIFE

FACULTY BRIEFS

Miss Zelpha Russell, director of ad-
missions, visited Bermuda May 7-! 8.
She was tlie guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Moniz, parents of David, who is
returning to Bryan this year as a
sophomore. She also visited in the

home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Da Costa,
whose son, Roger, is a new freshman.
While in Bermuda, Miss Russell attend-
ed a missionary conference at the
Evangelical Church where Rev. and
Mrs. Jack Shalanko were speakers. The
Shalankos are missionaries in Ecuador
with Radio Station HCJB. Their son,
John, will be a senior at Bryan this
year.

Dr. John B. Bartlett, vice president
and academic dean, led his eleventh
tour to Europe June 15-July 5, visiting
England, France, Switzerland, and
Italy. He was accompanied by 16
members in his tour party, including
Candy Durham, Mary Lane, Sherri
West, and Paula Purser, all Bryan stu-
dents; William Ketchersid, associate
professor of history; Carol Purser and
Mark Huston, both of Dayton; and
Ruth Brock, alumna of Spring City.

Kermit Zopfi, dean of students,
Miss Karin deRosset, dean of women,
and Robert D. Andrews, dean of men,
took part in a national dean's con-
ference and workshop at Philadelphia
College of Bible, June 6-10. The re-
ligious, social, and political trends of
today as they affect the work of
Christian colleges were topics of study.

Four Bryan administrators— Dr.
Theodore C. Mercer, president; Mrs.
Mayme Bedford, dean of counseling
services; Vern Archer, treasurer; and
Carlos Carter, business manager— atten-
ded the 21st national institute of the

Council for the Advancement of Small
Colleges (CASC) held in Washington,
D.C., June 13-17. The objective of the
institute was to examine the federal
aid program and federal regulations as
they apply to the small private college.

Dr. J. James Greasby, professor of
music, attended the American Guild of
Organists' annual national convention
in Boston, Mass., June 20-28. He also
was accompanist for the Chattanooga
Boys' Choir on its bicentennial tour
this summer.

Dr. Ralph B. Paisley, associate
professor of biology, and Dr. Merlin D.
Grieser, assistant professor of
chemistry, participated in a summer
study program at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, conducted by the Special
Training Division of Oak Ridge
Associated Universities. Dr. Paisley
studied the biological applications of
radiation, and Dr. Grieser studied
energy sources for the future. A
stipend was provided by ORAU for
the participants in this faculty
institute.

Dr. Paisley also attended the annual
meeting of the American Scientific
Affiliation held August 20-23 at
Wheaton (Illinois) College.

ENROLLMEIMT REPORT

Fall enrollment is at 603 according
to the total head count on census day.
Of this number 557 are full-time
students and 46 are part-time with a
full-time equivalent of 571. Applica-
tions for new students for the current
year are the same as last year, but the
net enrollment for first semester shows
a 4.7% drop from a year ago. AH col-
lege dormitory housing facilities,
however, are full.

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FALL 1976

SPORTS

SOCCER

Despite the loss of eight seniors
from last season's National Christian
College Athletic Association
championship team, head soccer coach
John Reeser is optimistic for the Lions
in the current season.

Several new recruits (both fresh-
men and transfers) fill the positions
vacated by players who were gradu-
ated; but because of Bryan's loss of a
goalie, two fullbacks, and a sweeper,
the defense needs rebuilding. The
offensive line returns intact, and
Reeser is counting on good goal pro-
duction from them.

A highlight of the year was the sea-
son-opening Bryan Invitational Tour-
nament, the first invitational soccer
tourney the Lions have ever hosted.

Three nearby powerhouses— Covenant,
Temple, and Tennessee Wesley an— gave
the tournament added interest. The
University of Tennessee is this fall's
Homecoming opponent on October 2.

VOLLEYBALL

Student coach Don Hewlett begins
his second season as leader of the
Lionette volleyball squad. In leading
his team to a second-place finish in last
year's conference championship tour-
nament, Hewlett was named Co-SCAC
Coach of the Year. A strong returning
nucleus combines with new students
to bolster the team's position as a
contender for the conference title. The
Lionettes opened their campaign with
a tri-match against the University of
Tennessee at Chattanooga and
Covenant on September 21. Bryan will
also participate in the Covenant Invita-
tional on November 5, 6.

SPORTS FLASH

In the first four contests of
the season Bryan Lions recorded
three wins and one loss. The
cross-country team continued its
winning ways from last year by
defeating Covenant College
22-36 in the opening run of the
season and by gaining an even
stronger victory over University
of Tennessee-Chattanooga 19-41
in its second meet.

The soccer Lions defeated
Tennessee Wesleyan College- of
Athens 3-0 in the opening game
of the Bryan Soccer Invitational
but lost a hard-fought game to
Covenant 1-0. Covenant had
defeated Tennessee Temple 4-0
in its first game; Temple won the
consolation game over Wesleyan
1-0.

CROSS COUNTRY

Bryan is depending on the
triumvirate of Mike Wood, Eric Clarke,
and Tommy Lane to fill the void left
by two runners lost by graduation—
number-one man, Tom Potter, and
number-five man, Chris Hatten.

Jeff Tubbs, who coached cross
country two years ago when Coach
Jake Matthes was on leave and now
replaces him, has many new freshmen
adding their talents to the 1976 squad.

The cross-country Lions will be
defending both their National
Christian College championship and
their Southern Christian Athletic Con-
ference title, the latter having been
won for the past two seasons. The
season opened at Covenant on Septem-
ber II; the NCCAA meet, the final
event of the season, will be held on
November 13 in Winona Lake, Ind.

COACH RESIGNS

Lloyd J. Matthes '59 resigned in
June as associate professor of
mathematics and cross-country coach,
a position he has held since 1967. He
has accepted a similar position at
Liberty Baptist College, Lynchburg,
Va. His wife, Sandy (Schmickl) '72,
will be instructor of music theory and
organ at Liberty.

Mr. Matthes had coached track and
cross country at Bryan for nine
seasons and had produced consistently
winning teams. In 1968 his cross-
country squad won the Tennessee In-
tercollegiate State Championship.

When cross country became a
Southern Christian Athletic Con-
ference sport in 1973, the Lions began
to dominate under Matthes'
leadership. For the last two years,
Bryan was undefeated in league com-
petition and Matthes was named SCAC
Coach of the Year both seasons. He
capped off his accomplishments last
November when his runners won the
National Christian College Athletic
Association championship. It was the
first national title Bryan had ever won
and Matthes was voted NCCAA Coach
of the Year.

Many smaller championships were
achieved by Bryan in both cross
country and track under Matthes' di-
rection throughout the nine seasons he
was at the school.

Bryan athletics is losing not only a
first-class coach this fall but also an
excellent person, whose testimony for
the Lord has influenced many indivi-
duals.

BRYAN LIFE

1976-77 CAMPUS CALENDAR

SOCCER SCHEDULE

1976-77 CONCERT SERIES

Oct.

University of Tennessee

Oct.

King

Oct.

Tusculum

Oct.

Tennessee Wesleyan

Oct.

University of Alabama-

Huntsville

Oct.

Tennessee Temple

Oct.

Toccoa Falls

Oct.

Maryville J.V.'s

Oct.

29,30

Tennessee Intercollegiate

Soccer Tourney

TEA

Nov

5,6

NCCAA District

Play-off

TEA

Nov

NCCAA Regional

Play-off

TEA

Nov.

19,20

NCCAA National

Play-off

TEA

BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
Men's

Nov. 15
Nov. 19
Nov. 22
Nov. 25-27
Nov. 29

Dec. 4
Dec. 10
Dec. 17-18
Jan. 8
Jan. 10
Jan. 13
Jan. 15
Jan. 18
Jan. 25
Jan. 29
Jan. 31
Feb. 5
Feb. 7
Feb. 14
Feb. 18
Feb. 19
Feb. 21
Feb. 25-26

Nov. 18
Nov. 20
Nov. 22
Nov. 29
Dec. 3^

Dec. 7
Jan. 8
Jan. 11
Jan. 15
Jan. 21
Jan. 22

Jan. 25
Jan. 28

Feb. 1
Feb. 3
Feb. 5
Feb. 11
Feb. 12
Feb. 14
Feb. 19
Feb. 21

Johnson Bible H

King A

Tennessee Wesleyan H

Grace College Invit. A

Sewanee A

Maryville A

King H

Miami Christian Invit. A

Tennessee Wesleyan A

MilUgan H

MaryvLUe H

Tenn. Temple A

Trevecca H

Covenant A

Lee A

Johnson Bible A

Tenn. Temple H

Milligan A

Sewanee H

Trevecca A

Covenant H

Lee H

SCAC Tournament A

Women's

Chattanooga State A

Georgia Tech. H

Roane State A

Sewanee A
Bryan Christmas Tourney H

(Milligan, Roane St.,

Covenant)

Chattanooga State H

Tennessee Wesleyan A

Maryville H

Tenn. Temple A

Warren Wilson A
North Carolina -

Asheville A

Covenant A

Warren Wilson H

MaryvUle A

Clearwater Christian H

Tenn. Temple H

Atlanta Christian A

Georgia Tech. A

Sewanee H

Covenant H

Lincoln Memorial H

Bill Pearce, noted Christian bari-
tone soloist and trombonist, delighted
the student and faculty audience in
the opening Student Union concert for
the year when he appeared on the plat-
form of the new Rudd Chapel early in
September. His first section was
accompanied by Charlie Loshbough,
senior music major, and the later num-
bers were accompanied by recorded
background music which supplied the
contemporary sound of guitar and or-
chestral arrangements. His selections
included "God Is So Wonderful,"
■'There's No Friend to Me Like Jesus,"
and "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho,"
which had very dramatic sound effects
in the accompaniment to his trombone
solo.

Among other performances in the
Student Union series this year are
Lamb, a Jewish Christian singing
group, on October 22; Dino, pianist,
November 19; and Honeytree, guitarist
and soloist, January 14.

COLLEGE CONCERT SERIES

The 1976-77 Bryan CoUege Con-
cert Series to be presented in the
attractive auditorium of the new Rudd
Memorial Chapel wall feature five out-
standing musical performances by
top-rate classical artists or groups of
musicians.

The schedule is as fol-
lows:
Oct. 21 -Robert Regal,

bass-baritone soloist
Nov. 4— Mario Abril, gui-
tarist
Feb. 8-Chattanooga
Opera Association in
Rossini's Barber of
Seville in joint spon-
sorship with Rhea Crea-
tive Arts
Feb. 24 — Chattanooga

Boys' Choir
Mar. 24-Allison Nelson,
concert pianist
A social hour after each concert in
the form of a dessert buffet will be
featured in the Brock Bicentennial
Hall with admission by a special des-
sert ticket.

Season tickets for the five concerts
are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
Children under 12 accompanied by an
adult are admitted free. Tickets for in-
dividual performances are $3 for
adults and $2 for students.

Community participation in atten-
dance at these concerts is being pro-
moted by the public relations depart-
ment to share the opportunity to hear
well-known musicians in a small com-
munity setting.

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October 11-13

9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Rudd Memorial Chapel

A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE OCCULT

Speaker: DR. ROY B. ZUCK

Assistant Academic Dean

and

Assistant Professor of Bible Exposition

Dallas Theological Seminary

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AMERICA'S HOPE

LORPOSEINlDUCATION

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BRYAN
LIFE

MAGAZINE

Editorial Office, William Jennings

Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee

37321. Publishing Office, Cross

Roads Publications, Inc., 2751

Buford Highway, N.E., Suite 720,

Atlanta, Georgia 30324,

404/325-7857.

Dr. Theodore C. Mercer.

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Robert C. Hill, EDITOR

John Weyant, MANAGING

EDITOR

Shirley Holmes, CIRCULATION

MANAGER

Steve Lester, ART DIRECTOR

Consulting Editors: Dr. John
Bartlett, Larry Levenger, Rebecca
Peck, and Charles Robinson.

Copy Editors:

Rebecca Peck.

Alice Mercer and

William Jennings Bryan College

Dayton, Tennessee

COVER PHOTO
IDENTIFICATION:

FRONT COVER

Laurel Falls, captured in its
winter glory, is a scenic highlight
in the 710-acre Laurel-Snow
Pocket Wilderness, which is the
largest of Bowaters Southern
Paper Corporation's pocket
wilderness areas. The Laurel-Snow
entrance is about three miles
north of Dayton and three miles
west of US Highway 27.

BACK COVER:

Bible teacher and author Dr.
Irving Jensen is shown in conver-
sation with students.

(Photo by Cunnyngham Studio,
Dayton Tennessee.)

Volume 2

Winter 1976/1977

Number 2

THE HOPE OF AMERICA: In a day of declining moral values, youth with 3

personal Christian convictions could turn the tide. By Roy J. Clark

WHAT'S WRONG WITH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: A 4

behind-the-scences view of TM reveals the fallacies of this rapidly growing
religious fad and offers suggestions to offset its dangers. By Roy B. Zuck

FINANCIAL BONDAGE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT: The second 6

article in a two-part series offers solutions to the dilemma of being in
bondage to unresolved financial obligations. By Larry Burkett

EDUCATION FOR LIFE: Behind the Christian liberal arts education is an 8

established philosophy and purpose designed to encourage the
development of intellectual and communication skills through a broad
knowledge of the arts and sciences. By Glen H. Liebig

FROM THE CHRISTIAN COMMENTATOR: Two Christian commenta- 11

tors strike sensitive chords on national political concerns and spiritual
accountability. By Lewis Llewellyn and Charles Robinson.

CAMPUS REVIEW: Honors, tributes, and faculty accomplishments high- 12

light current report.

SPORTS REVIEW: Fall season nets championships for both women and 14

men.

RUDD CHAPEL NEWS: Gift of organ brings into focus remaining funds 15

needed by dedication.

A Thought for the New Year

For this first issue of the new year, I
share the famous lines used by King
George VI in his address to the British
Empire for Christmas 1939 in those early
dark days of World War IL Though we are
not in a shooting war, our country stands
in dire need of divine guidance at this
hour. The dominant characteristics in
every area of human society worldwide

are ominous. The sentiment expressed in these lines is my prayer for myself and for

the Bryan community, as well as for our country:

/ said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light
that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out
into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall
be to you better than light and safer than a known way. "

—from "God Knows," 1908, by Minnie Louise Haskins

Theodore C. Mercer

BRYAN LIFE:

The Hope

of AMERICA

by Roy J. Clark

Our bicentennial year has been for some Americans a
time of thoughtful introspection and growing desire to do
something to halt the moral decline in our nation. An in-
creasing number of people are wondering what life will be
like for their children and grandchildren. What is the hope
of America for the future?

I would suggest to you that the hope of America lies in
the caliber and Christian character of its young people.
Their training and development deserve our undivided at-
tention. I find a very real parallel between the events
recorded in the opening chapters of the book of Daniel and
American society in the seventies. Daniel and some of his
friends had been transported by their captors from the
hallowed environment of Jerusalem to the secular surround-
ings of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar immediately began a
"brainwashing" campaign with these choice young people.
In an effort to get God out and Babylonian culture in,
certain changes were prescribed-in the food they ate, the
clothes they wore, the teaching they received, and the very
names that identified them. For Daniel this dramatic
change was geographical and was experienced in a matter of
weeks.

For our American society the change has been philo-
sophical and theological and has taken us from the
Christian frame of reference that was ours at the turn of the
twentieth century to the humanism of the 1920s and
1930s, and now to the secularism and nihihsm of our day.
We are in the post-Christian era. We live in the secular city.
There is a godlessness that is reflected in art, music, and
literature. Daniel and his three friends-Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego— found themselves in a similar secular
society. What we need to see is what they did about it!

First, there was the pressure to conform. J. B. Phillips
translated Romans 12:2: "Don't let the world around you
squeeze you into its own mould . . . ." And Daniel did not.
Although he was ordered to dine from the delicacies of
Nebuchadnezzar's table, he "purposed in his heart that he
would not defile himself with the portion of the king's
meat, nor with the wine which he drank . . ." (Daniel 1:8).

Daniel and his young friends had an estabhshed set of
spiritual convictions. Such convictions are valuable spiritual
equipment these days. Instead of yielding and conforming,

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they had spiritual stamina to refuse. Think of the situation.
They were a long way from home and could have reasoned,
"Who wQl ever know?" What one does in a strange place
where he is not known is a fairly good barometer of his
spiritual Ufe. Daniel and his friends could have been
frightened into conformity by fiery furnaces and dens of
Uons. They were not. They could have been resentful about
their captivity and surrendered in order to spite God. They
did not! They might have desired to please their captors
and save their Uves. But they were unmovable!

Second, one discovers in this opening chapter in Daniel
that these young people not only had personal convictions
but they knew what God was doing in history. Throughout
this book of Daniel, one can find the attempt through
astrology and magic to umavel history. How it reminds us
of the 1970s! There are vain attempts through horoscopes,
prophets, and seances to find out what is happening. No
one can read the handwriting on the wall. Daniel could! He
knew God's program in history (see Daniel 2). In "all
matters of wisdom and understanding," he was found to be
"ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers" in
the realm (Daniel 1:20).

The hope of America lies in young people like Daniel.
What greater need do we have than young people of
Christian character equipped with personal convictions and
aware of what God is doing in His universe? People will
never discover the secrets of the future through dabbhng in
the occult. They can find out through young people who
know God's plan from God's Word. May we thank God for
the contribution of Christian colleges that help to shape the
thinking of our young people by giving them a truly
Christian education.

Mr. Clark '51 is pastor of the Immanuel
Baptist Church of Fort Wayne, Indiana. He
was pastor of the Bethlehem Baptist Church
in Cleveland, Ohio, for 18 years and while
there was founder of the Baptist Christian
School and also vice president of the Cleve-
land Hebrew Mission. He currently serves as
a member of the Council of 12 for the
Regular Baptist Churches of Indiana and of
Bryan's National Advisory Council. Follow-
ing his October visit to Bryan, Mi. Clark
wrote the accompanying article.

WHAT'S Wrong

WITH TM?

In 1959 a Hindu guru (teacher) by
the name of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
came out of several years of recluse
and meditative study in a cave in India
and came to the Western world to
teach Transcendental Meditation. In
the 1960s, when he was back in India,
he became popularized by a visit of
the Beatles, who then took up TM and
proclaimed him the savior of mankind.

In the last several years his teach-
ings have attracted many students on
college and high-school campuses. But
TM is no longer limited to the student
world. Housewives, business execu-
tives, scientists, surgeons, college pro-
fessors, military officers, prisoners,
and children are practicing Transcen-
dental Meditation.

What Is Transcendental Meditation?

Transcendental Meditation (com-
monly referred to as TM) is an easily
learned meditation technique in which
the person sits with his eyes closed for
twenty minutes twice a day while
thinking of a sound assigned to him by
a TM teacher.

This is probably one of the fastest
growing movements in the United
States and it certainly represents one
of the greatest advances the Eastern
world has ever made in the West. It is
reported that 15,000 recruits are tak-
ing up TM every month. Numerous
organizations and businesses are
recommending it to their employees,
as something that is much like a Dale
Carnegie course. Several state legisla-
tures have passed resolutions recom-
mending their citizens to practice TM.
A total of seventeen research grants
have been made by the United States
government to help finance the teach-
ing of TM in public schools. A course
on the Science for Creative Intelli-
gence (on TM) has been taught in
numerous universities and high
schools.

Why Has It Grown?

Why have almost a milhon people
taken up this meditative practice? Ac-

by Roy B. Zuck

cording to a sheet distributed at intro-
ductory free public lectures introduc-
ing TM, "Studies have indicated a wide
range of benefits including improved
health and interpersonal relationships,
increased learning ability, better job
performance, and reduced tension,
anxiety, and depression." The claim is
made that people who practice TM can
have serenity without drugs and that
TM "gives fuller meaning to all reh-
gions."

Many people insist that TM has
made a difference in their lives. For
example. Major General Davis, former-
ly of the U.S. Army War College, said
that after he began meditating before
breakfast and dinner his blood pres-
sure came down ten points. A state
senator remarked, "It's changed my
life. I am more stable emotionally."
Others have spoken of how it has given
them additional energy and has en-
abled them to get along better with
people. The International Meditation
Society makes much of the scientific
research done on those involved in
TM, seeking to prove in this way that
TM "speeds up reaction time, indicat-
ing increased alertness, improved co-
ordination of mind and body, reduced
dullness, and improved efficiency in
perception and performance." How-
ever, not all scientists are readily ac-
cepting the validity of these findings.
One such person is Gary E. Schwartz,
of the Harvard Medical School (see the
April, 1974, issue of Psychology To-
day). A British neurophysiologist,
Peter Fenwick, is another scientist
who questions the vahdity of these
scientific studies on TM (London
Times, May 17, 1974).

How Is Transcendental iVIeditation
Learned?

Seven steps are involved in be-
ginning the practice of TM. The first
two steps are two introductory lec-
tures, made free to the public and ad-
vertised in newspapers and on the

radio. The first lecture emphasizes
what TM is not and what TM does.
The lecturer states that TM is not a
religion, a philosophy, biofeedback,
nor hypnotism, and does not involve
drugs, a diet, exercises, or special
equipment. Two benefits that are
stressed are these: It helps maximize
intellectual capacities, and it helps
minimize stresses. The second lecture
discusses the technique of TM. At the
end of the second lecture those who
are in attendance are encouraged to
enroll for the next five steps.

Step three is a personal interview
with the teacher. Though it is called a
personal interview, it also includes an
initiation ceremony. Then steps four
through seven are group sessions of
about one and a half hours each in
four consecutive days or evenings in
order to help the recruits get started in
the practice correctly.

As the person comes for the per-
sonal interview, he pays $125 if he is
an adult ($200 for married couples),
$65 if he is a college student, or $55 if
he is a high-school student. The first
two lectures are offered in TM centers
known as "World Plan Centers."

In addition to bringing the course
fee at the time of the personal inter-
view, the person is also asked to bring
six flowers, two items of fruit, and one
clean white handkerchief. Then in the
initiation ceremony he is asked to re-
move his shoes and kneel before a pic-
ture of the Guru Dev, the now-dead
Hindu teacher of the Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi. The room is filled with
incense and candles are burning. The
recruit places the fruit and flowers on
the handkerchief beneath the picture
of the Guru Dev. Then the teacher be-
gins chanting in Sanskrit what is called
the puja, a song of thanksgiving. Fol-
lowing the chanting, which takes
about ten minutes, the teacher rises
and looks at the initiate and tells him a
Sanskrit word, which is his mantra.
The recruit is then to pronounce the

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word; and then in his twice-a-day prac-
tice of TM, he is to repeat the word
silently over and over in order to cause
his mind, as TM teachers put it, to
float. He is not to reveal the mantra to
anyone. The purpose of the medita-
tion is to "reverse the thought process
to more subtle levels of thought."

How Should TM Be Evaluated?

1. It is deceptive.

Although TM teachers make much
of the fact that TM is not a religion,
the ceremony, which certainly takes
on a religious flavor, is said to be
"only an act of gratitude," and its pur-
pose is "to maintain the purity of
TM." However, in the lengthy
chanting in Sanskrit (which the
teachers must also memorize in Eng-
lish, a fact which means that they
know what they are chanting in
Sanskrit) various gods are invoked (in-
cluding Brahma, Vashishtha, and
Shakti), many offerings are made to
the dead Hindu teacher Guru Dev, and
then Guru Dev is praised as having
great glory and is referred to in these
words: "The Unbounded, like the
endless canopy of the sky, the omni-
present in all creation . . . bliss of the
Absolute, transcendental joy, the Self-
Sufficient, the embodiment of pure
knowledge which is beyond and above
the universe like the sky . . . the One
Eternal, Pure, Immovable . ..." A
copy of this initiation ceremony
chanting, called The Puja, can be ob-
tained from the Spiritual Counterfeits
Project, P. O. Box 4309, Berkeley, CA.
94704, for ten cents.

The very name "Yogi" in the name
of the promoter of TM is strongly tied
in with the Hindu rehgion. "Yogi"
means "one who has attained to union
with the impersonal god of Hindu-
ism." The goal of Hinduism is that the
soul or self, called the Atman, may
unite with the Brahman, which is the
All, Ultimate, the impersonal That. It
is very evident that though Tran-
scendental Meditation pretends not to
be religious, it is in actuality very
deeply religious. This amounts to in-
tentional deception.

2. It is dangerous

A college student said that in his
practice of TM he began to have
"some scary experiences " and there-
fore dropped the practice. The former
meditator said that he "became aware
of the presence of spirit beings" while
meditating. A former TM meditator
told a Christian in India the names of
some of the mantras. The Christian
quoted him as saying, "They are Om,
Ham, Vam, Yam, Tham, Aeim, Hrim,

Krom, Srim, Krim, etc. These are
esoteric, secret spells, generally
associated with magic." The Christian
then explained that when the mantra
is repeated in a mood of intense con-
centration it produces a kind of
hypnotic effect on the mind of the
person meditating. A paper entitled
"Transcendental Meditation and a
Christian Response" (available for
twenty-five cents from the Spiritual
Counterfeits Project) cites the exper-
ience of a former teacher of TM: "I
had a vivid experience of demonic
oppression while there, when in the
night during sleep I awoke with a sense
of fear and apprehension, as pressure
was being put aU over my head and
body by a spirit who was trying to
enter my body. . . .Other supernatural
experiences began to occur, such as
clairvoyance, telepathy, and the be-
ginnings of astral travel." This testi-
mony and the testimony of others
make it clear that the practice of TM
places one's mind in a neutral, passive
state, which is dangerous.

3. It is diverse from Scripture.

In his first book. Meditations of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, this Hindu
teacher stated that "TM is a path to
God" (p. 59). This, of course, is con-
trary to the Scriptures, which teach
that Jesus Christ is the only way to
God (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; I Tim.
2:5). In that same book (p. 95), the
statement is made that TM is "a very
good form of prayer, a most refined
and a most powerful form of prayer."

The encouragement to abandon
consciously directed thoughts during
the time of meditation is contrary to
true biblical meditation, which is to be
centered consciously on the Word of
God, the works of God, and the ways
of God (see, e.g., Ps. 119: 15, 27, 148).
The encouragement to repeat a mantra
is in direct violation to the instruction
given by Christ himself in Matthew
6:7: "When ye pray, use not vain
repetitions, as the heathen do."

Furthermore, the Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi makes other statements
that are in clear contradiction to the
Scriptures: "I don't think Christ ever
suffered or Christ could suffer." "TM
will enable all men to find their god
within themselves." "The answer to
every problem is that there is no prob-
lem." TM enables man to come "out
of the field of sin" and become "a vir-
tuous man." These and other state-
ments make it very obvious that it is
entirely wrong for TM teachers to say
that Transcendental Meditation is
"compatible to all rehgions." It is cer-
tainly not compatible with
Christianity!

What Can Be Done About TM?

Christians should vigorously under-
take the following several steps:

1. Share this information on the
deceptive, dangerous, and scripturally
diverse nature of Transcendental Medi-
tation. For further study consult these
books; Meditation That Transcends,
by Robert P. Lightner (Denver: D/P
PubUcations, 1976, 95c) and What
Everyone Should Know About Tran-
scendental Meditation, by Gordon R.
Lewis, (Glendale, Calif.: G/L Publica-
tions, 1975, $1.45).

2. Share the Gospel with those
who are unsaved. It is not enough to
divert them from Transcendental Med-
itation; we must also give the positive
message of salvation from sin.

3. Pray that God will dissipate the
enormous psychic power of Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi.

4. Be alert to and oppose any TM
activity in your community, such as
lectures in city meeting halls, the prac-
tice of TM in public schools, or the
promotion of TM by state or local
governments.

5. Write to the Honorable James
O. Eastland, chairman of the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, United States
Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510,
pointing out your disapproval of the
Senate Resolution no. 64, which is a
resolution being considered by the
Committee for the purpose of estab-
lishing the first full week of each
November as World Plan Week. The re-
solution itself is entitled, "A Resolu-
tion to Increase Awareness of TM."
Point out to Mr. Eastland that you
oppose this resolution's becoming a
bill because of the religious nature of
TM and because the encouragement of
TM by the federal government would
violate the constitutional principle of
the separation of church and state.

Dr . Z u ck is
assistant academic
dean at Dallas Theo-
logical Seminary
and assistant pro-
fessor of Bible ex-
position, positions
he has held since
1975. His pro-
fessional experience
includes serving as a Teaching Fellow, Dallas
Seminary (1957-59); editor of youth pro-
grams, Scripture Press (1959-64); and execu-
tive vice president Scripture Press Ministries
(1965-73). He graduated with honor from
Biola Bible College (1953) and with high
honor from Dallas Theological Seminary
(1957), which also conferred on him the
Th.D. degree in 1961. Dr. Zuck's message
on Transcendental Meditation was one of
five lectures on the theme of the occult
which he delivered at Bryan for the Staley
Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture
Series on October 11-13.

WINTER 1976/1977

FINANCIAL BONDAGE:

And WhatToDo About It?

by Larry Burkett

STEPS TO TAKE TO BREAK
THE FINANCIAL BONDS

It is important for a Christian to be able to recognize
financial bondage, but it is equally important to know how
to achieve freedom. Financial freedom manifests itself in
every aspect of the Christian's life— relief from worry and
tension about overdue bills, a clear conscience before God
and before other men and the absolute assurance that God
is in control of his finances.

This is not to say that a Christian's life will be totally
void of any difficulties in the area of finances once he
achieves freedom. Often God will allow the consequences
of earlier actions to remain in order to reinforce the lesson;
also God does not promise to remove every difficulty. But
no matter what circumstances we encounter, God promises
peace; thus the Christian's life can be totally void of worry.

How can we achieve financial freedom? First, a transfer
of ownership of every possession must be made to God.
This means money, time, family, material possessions, edu-
cation, even earning potential for the future.

There is absolutely no substitute for this step. If we
beheve that we ou;n a single possession, then the events that
affect that possession are going to affect our attitudes.

It is simple to say, "I make a total transfer of every-
thing to God," but not so simple to do. At first a person
will probably experience some difficulty in consistently
seeking God's will in the area of material things because he
is so accustomed to self-management and control. But fi-
nancial freedom comes from knowing that God is in con-
trol.

What a great reUef it is to turn our burdens over to Him.
Then, if something happens to the car, you can say,
"Father, I gave this car to You; I've maintained it to the
best of my ability, but I don't own it. It belongs to You, so
do with it whatever You would like."

Second, a Christian must get out of debt altogether.
Debt exists when any of the following conditions are true:

— Payment is past due for money, goods, or services that
are owed to other people.

— The total value of unsecured liabUities exceeds total
assets. In other words, if you had to cash out at any
time, there would be a negative balance on your ac-
count.

— Anxiety is produced in the area of financial responsi-
bihties, and the family's basic needs are not being met
either because of past or present buying practices.

GETTING AND STAYING CURRENT

To get and stay current, estabhsh a written plan of all
expenditures and their order of importance, Usting needs
first, then wants and finally desires.

The difference between needs, wants, and desires can be
illustrated this way: We can see in our society today that
more people, particularly those who work, need an automo-
bile. That need can be satisfied by a used Volkswagen. The
want can be satisfied by a larger car such as an Oldsmobile.
And the desire may be satisfied only by a brand new
Cadillac.

Each of us must assess those levels according to the plan
that God has for our lives. For instance, if a Christian is in
financial bondage and is not able to keep his family's needs
met and bills paid, he must assess whether a television set is
a need, a want, or a desire. He must also assess vacations
and other activities on the same basis.

A Christian in debt must stop any expenditure which is
not absolutely essential for Uving and should think before
every purchase. He should ask himself: Does this item en-
hance God's work in my life? Is it a necessity? Does it
reflect my Christian ethics? Can I continue to take maga-
zines, encyclopedias, or book and record subscriptions
while I owe others? Is this the very best possible buy I can
get? Will it add to or detract from my family relationship?
Is it a highly depreciative item? Does it require costly
upkeep?

A Christian in debt should also begin buying on a cash
basis only. The principle to observe is this: If you are in
debt from misuse of credit, sto'p— totally stop— using it. One
of the best things to do with credit cards, when in debt, is
pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees and put them in it. Then
mail the cards to their respective companies and ask them
to mail you no more. Include in your letter the plan for
paying off that credit card debt, and then commit yourself
to buying solely on a cash basis.

DEEPER BONDAGE

Every consumer should understand that credit card
companies will allow borrowing beyond the ability to
repay. And once someone has over-extended his finances, it
is necessary to sacrifice some of the wants and desires in life
to get current; otherwise, he will continue to borrow and
only get deeper into bondage.

To get out of debt, an individual must also practice
saving money. Even if it's only $5 a month, develop a dis-
cipUne of saving. This does not mean to store up a large
amount of money and to sacrifice paying creditors, but it is
necessary to accumulate some reserve.

BRYAN LIFE

The third step to obtaining financial freedom is to es-
tablish the tithe as the minimum testimony to God's owner-
ship. How can anyone say that he has given total ownership
to God when he has never given testimony to that fact?

Fourth, to obtain financial peace, recognize and accept
that God's financial provision is used to direct each of our
lives. Often Christians lose sight of the fact that God's will
can be accompUshed through a withholding of funds; we
think that God can direct us only by an abundance of
money. But each Christian must learn to live on what God
provides and not to live under pressure brought on by driv-
ing desires for wealth and material things. This necessitates
planning lifestyles around the provision that God has sup-
phed; it can be done. Seek to understand the wisdom in
God's providing for you what He has. With this understand-
ing come perfect peace and freedom.

If a Christian pursuing this plan cannot meet the basic
necessities of his family, God will simply use the abundance
of other Christians to assist. God will never faO to supply.

A CLEAR CONSCIENCE

Fifth, a Christian must have a clear conscience regarding
past business practices and personal dealings in order to
have financial freedom. God often requires restitution. If
you have wronged someone financially, spiritually, morally
or otherwise and God has laid it on your heart to go and
confess, do so. The faUure to act will retard any further
spiritual growth for you. But there will be a great personal
blessing in going. Understand that it is not the individual's
forgiveness that is necessary, but God's.

I recall a friend who had wronged an individual finan-
cially before he became a Christian. God convicted him
about this and indicated that he should go and make resti-
tution. He contacted this individual, confessed what had
been done, and offered to make it right. The person refused
to forgive and refused to take any money.

For a while, it hurt my friend's ego and pride, until he
realized that it was not for the offended person that he had
confessed, but for himself. It was not for the loss that
restitution was offered, but for his relationship with God.
God had forgiven him and he had done exactly what God
had asked. Nothing further was required.

Sixth, a Christian seeking financial freedom must al-
ways be willing to put other people first. This does not
imply that a Christian has to be a floor mat for others; it
simply means that he doesn't profit at the disadvantage of
someone else. The key, again, lies in attitude.

To avoid financial superiority, a Christian must apply
the attitude God shows us in His Word: "Do nothing from
selfishness or empty conceit, but with humUity of mind let
each of you regard one another as more important than
himself; do not merely look out for your own personal
interests, but also for the interests of others" (Phihppians
2:3,4).

Seventh, to achieve financial freedom, a Christian must
also Umit time devoted to business affairs when family in-
volvement suffers. It is an easy trap to find yourself spend-
ing 12, 14, or 16 hours a day at work. But an interesting
thing happens when God's principles are applied. You can
trim the work day back to 10 hours and get the same
amount of work done. Then back to eight with the same
result. If they planned their schedules properly, worked on
the important things first, and allowed other people around
them to do their jobs without interfering with them, the
majority of Christians could trim their average day back to
five hours and accomplish the same amount of work or
perhaps more. But seek a balance. If business involvement
requires that you sacrifice God's work or your family, it is
not according to God's plan.
OVERCOMING SELF-INDULGENCE

Eighth, every Christian, to achieve financial freedom.

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must avoid the indulgences of life. Unfortunately, most of
us are self-indulgers, rarely passing up a want or desire,
much less a need. But in light of the needs around us, it is
important that Christians assess their standards of Uving.
Most of us can reduce our expenditures substantially with-
out a real reduction in living standard.

And finally, step nine, it is important to seek good
Christian counseling whenever in doubt. "Without consulta-
tion, plans are frustrated, but with many counselors they
succeed" (Proverbs 15:22). God admonishes us to seek
counsel and not to rely solely on our own resources. In
financial planning, many Christians become frustrated be-
cause they lack the necessary knowledge and then give up.
God has suppUed Christians with the abihty to help others
in the area of finances. Seek them out.

The very first counselor to be used is the spouse. Many
times God will provide the answer right within your own
home. Husbands and wives together can frequently work
out financial problems that would frustrate either of them
alone.

Also, let your need for counsel be made known to other
Christians. Too many times we Christians set up the facade
that we have no problems. How can others help unless they
are aware? It is not necessary to broadcast every problem
throughout the Christian community, but at least allow
others the opportunity to minister to you.

If necessary, seek professional financial counseling. I
would advise counseling only from a Christian source.
Often good, sound financial counseling can come from a
non-Christian source, but many of the things that you want
to accomplish will be nonsense to the non-Christian.

So you can see, as we examine the concept of financial
freedom, that there are definite symptoms that indicate
when a Christian is in bondage but that there are also
clearly defined steps to attaining freedom. Begin to put
these principles into practice in your life and share them
with other Christians.

I would encourage you to study God's Word to gain a
deeper understanding of His perspective on financial bond-
age and attaining freedom. The following passages wUl be
helpful to you:

CONCERNING FINANCIAL BONDAGE: Proverbs
27: 12; Matthew 6:24, 25; Proverbs 28:22, II Thessalonians
3:10; Luke 16:10; Ephesians 5:5; Psalms 73:2, 3; I
Timothy 5:8; James 5:1-4; Proverbs 3:9, 10; Revelation
3:I7;John6:27.

CONCERNING FINANCIAL FREEDOM: Proverbs
10:22; Deuteronomy 5:32, 33; Psalms 37:21; Proverbs
21:20; Deuteronomy 14:23; Romans 11:34; Matthew 5:24;
Proverbs 23:4, 5; Luke 9:23.

Larry Burkett, a financial coun-
selor formerly with Campus Crusade
for Christ International, is director of
Christian Financial Concepts, Inc.,
Tucker, Georgia. He has been in-
volved in several businesses, teaches
seminars on Christian finances
throughout the United States, and
has a television series called "Your
Finances in Changing Times." The ac-
companying article, i in.incial Bondage," was one of four lectures
given at the Bryan faculty-staff retreat held at the Harry Johnson
cottage on Watts Bar Lake just prior to the opening of the fall term.
Mr. Burkett holds the B.S. degree in finance from RoUins College,
Winter Park, Florida.

EDUCATIOr

Some months ago while eating in
a restaurant in one of our large cities,
two men were overheard expressing
dissatisfaction with the education of
their children. One of them was
saying that education should prepare
youth for life. The incident recalls a
conversation from The Thousand and
One Nights. A royal gentleman, hav-
ing traveled into a distant land, fell
into the hands of highwaymen who
robbed him of all his goods and
servants. He escaped wounded and
finally found his way to the shop of
a tailor who fed and lodged him.
After three days the good tailor
asked him, "Dost thou not know any
trade by which to make a gain?"

The unfortunate traveler repUed,
"I am acquainted with the law, a stu-
dent of science, a writer, and an
arithmetician."

To this the tailor responded,
"Thy occupation is profitless in our
country: there is no one in our city
acquainted with science or writing,
but only with getting money."

What type of education prepares
the individual for hfe? The faculties
of the colleges of early America be-
Ueved that education should train the
mind to think and the tongue to
speak. The Yale Report of 1828
declared the end of higher education
to be the "disciplined and informed
mind." The curriculum consisting of
prescribed studies in the classics of
Greek and Latin and in pure mathe-
matics was to develop intellectual
skills that could readily be transferred
to other fields of study and to any
future vocation. Particular knowledge
of the trades and professions was to
be gained outside of college.

Technical Training

By the middle of the nineteenth
century, the expanding industry and
commerce of a growing nation called
for more technical training. The
MorrOl Act of 1862 resulted in the
founding of the institutions which
were to evolve into our great state
universities. These institutions offered
specialized training in agriculture and
in the mechanical arts. The trend to-
ward technical specialization was
further stimulated by the influence of
the German universities and their pre-
occupation with the search for new

knowledge. The older institutions,
such as Harvard and Yale, began to
replace the prescribed curriculum
with electives from an ever-widening
range of academic disciplines. The
growing diversity in curriculum is
demonstrated by the fact that the
number of departments of instruction
in these traditional institutions grew
between 1825 and 1900 from six or
seven to twelve or fourteen in most
cases and to a high of twenty-two at
Yale. By the turn of the century, the
prescribed programs of general studies
had been reduced from the full four-
year program to less than half of the
program, taken primarily in the fresh-
man and sophomore years. The re-
mainder of the program consisted of
concentrations in chosen major and
minor fields and of free electives.

General Education Foundation

Following the pattern which
evolved during the nineteenth cen-
tury, most colleges still require a core
of general education as a foundation
on which the more specialized major
program is buUt. In most four-year
institutions, these prescribed programs
usually include courses in English,
math, natural sciences, social sciences,
literature, fine arts, and foreign lan-
guages. The goal of this general educa-
tion is to enable the educated person
to think clearly, communicate effec-
tively, make relevant judgments, and
discriminate among values.

During recent years, required gen-
eral education has come under con-
siderable attack. In the decade of the
60s, the student revolts which made
headhnes focused on curricular as
well as administrative matters. Stu-
dents demanded more voice in curri-
cular decisions and more freedom in
the selection of courses of study. The
result was modification or reduction
of required general education and
particularly of foreign language re-
quirements. The economic recession
of the 70s placed further stress on
required general education programs,
particularly in the liberal arts col-
leges, because many college graduates
with hberal arts degrees were unable
to find jobs. Some recent critics of
higher education have gone so far as
to say that college is a waste of time
and money. Government-sponsored

media advertisements advise youth to
enter one- and two-year vocational
programs and promise them salaries
and status equivalent to those of the
holders of the bachelor's degrees.

Just as colleges of the past cen-
tury modified their curricular offer-
ings to meet the new demands of a
changing environment, so colleges to-
day must continually evaluate their
curricula and answer for each new
generation the question, "What edu-
cation prepares the individual for
hfe?" Undoubtedly education for life
will provide the individual with a
means of earning a living, but life
consists of more than buying and
selling. The Christian must reject the
notion that all things reduce them-
selves to economics. "The Kingdom
of God is not food and drink, but
righteousness, and peace, and joy in
the Holy Spirit." A Christian hberal
arts education should provide for the
physical, social, intellectual, and
spiritual development of the indivi-
dual. "And Jesus increased in wisdom
and stature, and in favor with God
and man."

Educational Purpose

According to the Bryan state-
ments of educational purpose, re-
quired general education at the col-
lege is intended "to provide oppor-
tunity for students to gain a
knowledge of the Bible and the arts
and sciences and to understand their
relationships" and "to encourage stu-
dents to think critically, to work in-
dependently, to communicate clearly,
and to express themselves creatively
in their search for truth." The board
of trustees, administration, and
faculty of Bryan College have always
beheved that a strong speciaMzed
major program buUt upon an effec-
tive general education core designed
to realize these objectives is the best
education for life.

College constituencies do not al-
ways appreciate the value and impor-
tance of general education. Students
who have grown up in the material-
success-oriented culture of America
see gainful employment and social
position as being the principal ob-
jective of a college education. Bryan
College is making renewed efforts to
inform its constituencies concerning

BRYAN LIFE J

■OR LIFE

byGlenH.Liebig

the educational philosophy and pur-
pose of the college. This article is one
aspect of this effort. The new coUege
catalog contains the following state-
ment of the rationale of required
generation education:

As a Christian liberal arts col-
lege, Bryan requires certain
courses as a part of each student's
program regardless of his major
field or professional goal. These
core requirements are designed to
provide for the student's in-
tellectual, physical, spiritual, and
social development (Luke 2:52).

It would be extremely diffi-
cult for the student, even with
the help of a faculty adviser, to
devise an ideal education. Re-
quirements are a form of aca-
demic advising based on the col-
lective educational thought of
many individuals and on the con-
tinuum of educational experience
of numerous generations. Require-
ments give the student both in-
tellectual breadth by providing an
opportunity to acquire the
knowledge that forms the com-
mon culture of his world and also
intellectual freedom by affording
an opportunity to learn to think
in various modes. These require-
ments represent the student's in-
tellectual rights of which he
cannot be deprived by anyone, in-
cluding himself.

Because Bryan is a Christian
college, biblical studies are re-
quired of all students. Every
Christian, accepting the Bible as
the supreme authority in matters
of belief and daily life, should
have a knowledge of its content.

Refined Objectives

In an effort to make general edu-
cation more effective at Bryan, the
coUege has embarked on the most
thorough study of general education
undertaken in recent years. As the
first phase of this study, a special
faculty task force worked during part
of the summer of 1976 on general
education, devoting most of its effort
to the writing of general education ob-
jectives. These objectives are more
specific than the statements of institu-
tional purpose quoted earlier. Selected

sample statements will give the reader
an idea of their character. They define
what the student should be able to do
on graduation from the college.

. . . discuss the major evidences
that the Bible is a divine revela-
tion.

Describe the scientific method
and give examples of its applica-
tion.

Judge the logical consistency of
verbal and non-verbal material.

. . . exemplify, through behavior,
respect for and acceptance of es-
tablished standards of conduct
which are consistent with Christian
ethics and testimony.

These statements will be used by
faculty and academic administrators as
a basis for the analysis of the present
program, decision-making on program
changes, and the development of
institution-wide evaluation programs.

The completion of this general
education program, together with
indicated program reforms, is expected
to occupy at least two years and will
include the refinement of the general
education objectives, the development
of academic and student-life programs
that have promise of realizing these
objectives, and the development and
implementation of systems of
evaluation that will enable the college
to determine the effectiveness of the
general education program. Phases of
the study which are yet to be
accomplished are being incorporated
into an institutional development
project being sponsored by the
Council for the Advancement of Small
Colleges. This project began in the fall
of 1 976 and continues through the
1978-79 academic year.

A quahty broad education in the
arts and sciences complemented by a
strong specialized major program gives
the college graduate an excellent pre-
paration for life in its varied dimen-
sions. The development of basic in-
tellectual skills enables the individual
to attack and solve problems of many
types. Skills in communication and in
interpersonal relations have applica-

tion at aU social levels from the family
to the larger community. Biblical and
theological studies equip the student
to discriminate among values and to
make moral and ethical judgments in
an environment of relativism. Studies
in the social sciences contribute to
more effective citizenship, and studies
in the natural sciences give the indivi-
dual a layman's appreciation for the
complexities of the world of science
and technology.

Foundation for
Vocational Preparation

It has been logically and effec-
tively argued that the development of
basic intellectual and communication
skills is the best vocational prepara-
tion. In a world of rapidly changing
technology, the fact that specialized
vocational education is frequently
obsolete by the time the graduate is
placed in a job makes on-the-job train-
ing necessary. The individual with
well-developed mental faculties and
communication skills and a good store
of general knowledge is better
equipped to cope with changing tech-
nology and retraining than the indivi-
dual who received only narrowly
specialized technical training.

What education prepares for Ufe?
We at Bryan College beUeve that a gen-
eral education that develops basic
skills and provides the individual with
broad knowledge complemented by a
generous concentration of biblical
studies and a specialized major pro-
gram will provide the best preparation
for life for many Christian young peo-
ple.

Mr. Liebig is
associate academic
dean and assistant
professor of modern
languages and has
been a member of
the faculty since
1964. He holds the
bachelor's degree
from Harrington College and the master's
from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
This article is part of a renewed effort by
the coUege to inform its constituencies con-
cerning the educational philosophy and pur-
pose of the college. It grows out of the
general education task force study of last
summer when six faculty members spent
two weeks working full time identifying
specific objectives of general education at
Bryan.

WINTER 1976/1977

gifts of stocks
yield extra benefits

"We try to help young people the best we can. Young
people today are the citizens of tomorrow and our hope for
the future." This statement made by Col. J. Henderson
Brock in acknowledging the dedication of the Brock Bicen-
tennial Hall characterizes the spirit which has motivated
Col. and Mrs. Brock to support Bryan. Most of the Brocks'
financial help for the Rudd Memorial Chapel has been in
gifts of appreciated stock.

The federal tax structure has been designed to en-
courage contributions to qualified non-profit organizations
through the use of income tax deductions. Making gifts of
appreciated stocks enables the donor not only to take full
advantage of the federal income tax deduction for chari-
table contributions but also to reduce or avoid the capital
gains tax liability.

Since income tax rates are progressive, the higher the
donor's income, the less his cost of giving. For example, the
after-tax cost of a $1,000 gift for a donor in the 20% in-
come tax bracket is $800. A person in the 50% income tax
bracket has an after-tax cost of only $500 for each $1,000
contribution. In the first case the Internal Revenue Service
could collect $200 less from the taxpayer than if there had
been no gift, and in the second case, $500 less.

ADVANTAGES OF CONTRIBUTING
APPRECIATED SECURITIES

In certain situations a donor realizes greater tax
advantages by contributing securities instead of cash. Since
a sale does not occur when stocks or other securities are
given to a quaUfied charitable organization, the Internal
Revenue Code does not recognize the potential capital
gains. Thus, when such property which has been held more
than nine months is transferred to most publicly supported
charities and certain private charitable foundations, the
amount deductible is based on the fair market value. Any
difference between the cost basis and fair market value is
not recognized as a capital gain.

A capital gain is simply the profit realized from the sale
of a capital asset which has been held longer than nine
months. The tax rate on realized capital gains is a maximum
of 25% of the first $50,000 of capital gains income.
Additional capital gains are taxed at somewhat higher rates.

Please send me a copy of Giving Stocks.

Mr.
Mrs.

Miss First name
Address

Middle initial Last name

The portrait of Col. and Mrs. Brock was unveiled by Mrs. Brock at
the dedication of the Brock Bicentennial Hall in the Rudd Memorial
Chapel before a capacity crowd of alumni, trustees, and other guests
attending the homecoming banquet. Col. Brock unveiled also the
bronze plaque which states, "This room has been named to com-
memorate the bicentennial of our nation and to honor Col. and Mrs.
J. Henderson Brock of Bradenton, Florida, in recognition of their
generous overall financial support of the college and especially for
their contribution in the erection and furnishing of the Rudd Mem-
orial Chapel." The Brocks were given a certificate by the Alumni
Association recognizing them as honorary alumni of Bryan.

EXAMPLE:

Mr. Edgar Smith is in the 40% income tax bracket. He
bought 1 50 shares of XYZ Corporation four years ago at a
cost of $1 ,000. The fair market value of these securities is
$4,000. Mr. Smith has a paper profit of $3,000. If he sells
the securities and gives the proceeds to a charity, he will
pay about $600 in additional income tax because he
reahzes a long-term capital gain. However, if he transfers
the stock to a qualified charity as a gift, he makes the same
$4,000 charitable contribution but avoids a capital gains
tax of $600.

Certainly for the Christian, tax savings are important.
Although the primary motive for giving is not tax savings,
good stewardship includes avoiding unnecessary taxes.

For further information on gifts of stock to qualified
charitable organizations, write for our free booklet entitled
Giving Stocks.

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BRYAN LIFE

from THE CHRISTIAN COMMENTATOR

CARTER and
the FUTURE

by Lewis Llewellyn

As President-elect James Earl Carter, Jr., prepares to
take over the reins of government on January 20, it may be
interesting to take a look at the kind of world in which we
will be Uving during the first part of his administration.

Foreign Affairs

First, a quick look at foreign affairs.

England, one of our strongest alUes in two world wars,
is facing economic catastrophe, having frittered away her
once vast wealth and power. She may not be much help to
us in a crisis.

Russia, having undertaken to surpass us in military
power, has pulled ahead of us in some areas and effectively
wiped out our former superiority in over-all defense capa-
city.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has said, "At one time there
was no comparison between the strength of the USSR and
yours. Then it became equal to yours. Now, as all
recognize, it's becoming superior to yours. Soon it will be
two to one, then three to one. Finally, it will be five to one
. . . and it is fully determined to destroy your society."

Africa is a tinderbox. It will probably be impossible to
prevent widespread guerrilla warfare, fomented and armed
by Russia and her allies. Angola is only the start. Rhodesia
is under pressure now. Before the matter is settled, the
whole continent may be engulfed in bloodshed.

Can we avoid becoming entangled?

Domestic Affairs

The major problem in domestic affairs is inflation,
fueled by government deficit spending. It took us 173 years
to reach the level of $100 billion a year in spending by the
federal government. Then in nine years spending rose to
$200 billion a year. Then in four years it was $300 billion a
year. In two more years it reached $400 billion.

Spending more than our income has become the ac-
cepted way of life as a nation. This is rapid progress toward
insolvency.

Can President Carter restrain this tendency for us as a
nation to commit economic suicide?

Conclusion

To save our nation. President Carter is going to need the
help of all of us-and of a Power greater than any of us.

An ancient historical Book tells of a conditional com-
mitment made, long ago, by a great Power to the people
who lived in a nation which, like ours, was established on
the principle "In God We Trust."

This commitment was given by the Lord: "If My People
. . . shall humble themselves and pray . . . and turn from
their wicked ways, then will I . . . forgive their sin and will
heal their land."

This is what we need to do.

GOD'S
FLUOROSCOPE

by Charles Robinson

When asked what was the most profound thought ever
to cross his mind, Daniel Webster replied, "My personal
accountability to God."

Paul raises a pertinent point when he asks: "Why dost
thou judge thy brother?. . .For we shall all stand before the
judgment seat of Christ." Be slow to judge, lest you seem to
usurp God's prerogative. Live each day mindful that one
day God will judge you. Of the judgment seat of Christ
notice three things:

Fact of Judgment

The Bible teaches a judgment of the Christian's
thoughts, words, and deeds. This is not a judgment to deter-
mine individual salvation. The Christian's judgment for sal-
vation was settled at Calvary and its benefits appropriated
when the believer trusted Christ. The behever in Jesus will,
however, appear at the judgment seat of Christ— not as a
sinner, but as a steward; and there he will give an account
of his stewardship to Christ. That judgment will determine
not his salvation, but the degree of his reward.

Nature of Judgment

The believer's judgment will take place when Jesus
returns. He, the just and holy Judge, will require of every
steward an account of his stewardship and will reward each
according to his work. This will be done not in the privacy
of some sort of great confessional booth in the sky, but in
the openness of eternity. "Neither is there any creature that
is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and
opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."

As a physician places an X-ray machine against his
patient's body and presents to view the inner workings of
its hidden parts, so the eyes of God will expose every word,
deed, thought, motive, and desire which we supposed was
hid from view. God's great fluoroscope will bring to hght
every secret sin of commission and omission in that great
examination day.

Present at that scene as the subjects of God's fluoro-
scopic examination, the unfaithful steward, the profaner of
the Lord's Day, and every other Christian, including you
and me, will account to the Lord of the harvest for the use
or misuse of talents and goods received from Him.

Result of Judgment

To the Corinthians Paul added that the purpose of this
judgment is "that everyone may receive the things done in
his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be
good or bad." All would do well, then, to heed the bidding
of John's first epistle: "Abide in Him; that, when He shall
appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed be-
fore Him at His coming."

How will it be with you in that day?

Lewis Llewellyn

Lewis Llewellyn '38, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Sebring, Fla., is
also a Bryan trustee. Charles Robinson is assistant director of public relations for
the college. Their articles are reprinted from the Christian Commentator, a
syndicated weekly feature carried by some one hundred newspapers across the
country. Mr. Llewellyn's column usually interprets some timely news item in the
light of the Bible, and Mr. Robinson comments on the International Sunday School
Lesson. Anyone wishing to receive the Christian Commentator each week without
cost should request it from Southern Evangelistic Committee. 565 Fernleaf Ave.,
Sebring, FL. 33870.

Charles Robinson

Campus
Review

CHAPEL SPEAKER

Dr. George Sweeting, president of
Moody Bible Institute, of Chicago,
spoke in chapel on October 15, em-
phasizing five basic attitudes that are
important for the Christian student as
he faces the future: 1) great faith in
God, 2) concern for the urban centers
of the world, 3) love for all people, 4)
total trust in the Word of God, and 5)
flexibiUty and creativity regarding
methods of communicating the gospel.

A 1945 graduate of Moody Bible
Institute, Dr. Sweeting served for five
years as senior pastor of the historic
Moody Memorial Church in Chicago
before being called to his present post.
He has also traveled extensively in the
United States and Europe in the capa-
cities of evangelist, pastor, and author.

Dr. Sweeting is now heard weekly
on "Moody Presents," an MBI radio
program heard internationally over a
network of more than 200 stations.

FACULTY NOTES

Mayme Sheddan Bedford, dean of
counseling services, was awarded the
Ed.D. degree in educational psy-
chology and guidance by the Univer-
sity of Tennessee KnoxvUle at its
December graduation.

Dr. Bedford's dissertation, "Predic-
tion of Persistence for College Stu-
dents Receiving Federal Financial Aid:
A Multiple Discriminant Function
Analysis," is based on research which
she did with data accumulated from
freshman students enrolUng at Bryan
through nine years, 1966-1974. The
emphasis of her doctoral program was
in college student personnel and her
minors were in psychology and in edu-
cational administration and super-
vision.

For a three-year special assign-
ment. Dr. Bedford is Bryan's on-cam-
pus coordinator for the project of in-
stitutional development of a con-
sortium of fifty-six colleges under the
sponsorship of the Council for the
Advancement of Small Colleges.

Dr. Bedford's experience as a col-
legian is typical of that of many
women who go to college after several
years of pursuing a homemaking or
other career. She entered Bryan Col-
lege after a span of seventeen years fol-
lowing her high-school graduation and
received her B.S. degree in business ad-
ministration in 1965; in 1968 she re-
ceived the M.Ed, degree at the Univer-
sity of Chattanooga. While still an
undergraduate student, she began on
the staff at Bryan as secretary to the
academic dean. As a full-time staff
member, she served as dean of women
for five years and since 1968 as finan-
cial aid officer and dean of counseling
services. She holds a faculty appoint-
ment as associate professor of educa-
tion.

Mrs. Bedford has three children,
two daughters and a son— Barbara
Sheddan '67, who is Mrs. Herman
Posey of Chattanooga; Frank Sheddan
'75, who is band director at Rhea
County High School; and Beverly, who
is a ninth grader. The late Mr. Sheddan
was director of Bryan's general services
at the time of his death in 1972. Mrs.
Bedford is married to Frederick
Bedford, assistant professor of modern
languages.

Dr. Brian Richardson, associate
professor of Christian education and
chairman of the Department of
Christian Education, addressed the
national meeting of the American
Association of Bible Colleges in
Chicago on October 30. He also ad-
dressed the National Association of
Professors of Christian Education,
which convened there during the same
week.

Dr. Tom Biller, assistant professor
of psychology and chairman of the
psychology department, received
notice in October of his selection for
Usting in Who's Who Among Child
Development Professionals, 1976. His
nomination for selection was made by
his professional peers.

Dr. Biller is a hcensed psychologist
and a chnical member of the American
Association of Marriage and Family
Counselors. He is certified by the
Tennessee State Department of Mental
Health as a forensic examiner and a
director of the Joseph W. Johnson
Mental Health Center in Chattanooga.

ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR

Allen Jewett '52, minister of edu-
cation at the First Baptist Church of
HendersonvUle, N.C., was honored as
Alumnus of the Year at the alumni
banquet. Mr. Jewett has served as
youth and music director in several
Baptist churches in five states; he was
dean of students at Bryan for two
years; and he is the father of Carolyn
Jewett Hobbs, a Bryan graduate of
1 974, and of Douglas, a senior, and
Cathy, a freshman.

BRYAN FOUNDER HONORED

Mrs. James S. (EUen Hoyal)
Frazier of Dayton, the oldest living
founder of the college and a trustee
emeritus, was honored with a commu-
nity-wide reception on November 28
to celebrate her ninetieth birthday.
The reception, hosted by Dr. and Mrs.
Theodore Mercer, was held at Rhea
House, the official residence of the
college.

Mrs. Frazier and her late husband
were involved in Bryan affairs from
the beginning. Living on Market
Street, just one block from the court-
house, Mr. Frazier attended every

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session of the Scopes Trial in 1 925 and
became an active member of the
memorial association formed to estab-
lish a college in Mr. Bryan's memory.
When the college was organized in
1930, Mr. Frazier became a trustee
and served until his death in 1937.
Mrs. Frazier later served as a trustee
from 1945 to 1962.

In discussing her appreciation for
the college, Mrs. Frazier commented,
"Bryan College is where I got my feet
on the ground in Bible knowledge."
She used that knowledge to teach
Bible classes for many years, including
the Volunteer Sunday School Class at
First United Methodist Church, which
on her retirement from teaching a few
years ago was renamed the Ellen
Frazier Class in her honor. She con-
tinues to be active in church and com-
munity affairs and is a frequent at-
tender of Bryan campus functions. Of
her it can be truly said, "They shall
still bring forth fruit in old age"
(Psalm 92:14).

HOMECOMING QUEEN

INMEMORIAM

^Tf^rfT-'

Photo by Bruce Robbins

Carla Johnson, who is shown
above with her escort. Student Senate
President Larry Efird, was crowned
homecoming queen October 2 during
half-time ceremonies at the soccer
game with the University of
Tennessee. A senior EngUsh major, she
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Johnson, AbQene, Texas.

Members of the queen's court were
Judy Welch, sophomore, Kalamazoo
Mich.; Karen Jensen, junior, Dayton,
Tenn.; and Melanie Webb, freshman,
Charlotte, N.C.

Mrs. EUa Levengood, widow of the
late Rev. A. J. Levengood, was called
into the Lord's presence on September
15, after nearly a year's confinement
in a nursing home. She had reached
the age of 83.

Mrs. Levengood was born in Mil-
waukee, Wis., and received her high
school and college training at the
Mission House near Plymouth, Wis.

In 1938 Mr. and Mrs. Levengood
moved with their five children to
Dayton, Tenn., where they became
founders of the Tennessee Mountain
Mission, Inc., with a ministry through
Bible classes in the public schools. In
1 948 they added the Cumberland
Springs Bible Camp for a summer pro-
gram for children and youth.

Mr. Levengood was also a faculty
member at Bryan from 1938 to 1944,
teaching Bible and Greek. During this
time the family built a home adjoining
the campus. The three older children
enrolled at Bryan when they came to
Tennessee from Ohio, with Paul com-
pleting three years and Mark and
Grace graduating with the class of
1942. Later another daughter, Miriam,
attended Bryan for one year; and their
youngest son, Albert, Jr., graduated in
1952.

Following the Levengood trend at
Bryan, four grandchildren have recent-
ly been enrolled, with two graduating
in the class of 1976— Jerry Dale
Levengood, son of Paul and Lillian
Hummel ('40) Levengood, and
Jonathan Bennett, son of Bob and
Grace Levengood Bennett. Kathy
Levengood, daughter of Albert and
Joyce Cooper ('52) Levengood, is cur-
rently enrolled as a sophomore, and
her sister Karen attended one year.

Since Mr. Levengood's death in
1956, his oldest son, Paul, has con-
tinued to direct the work of the
mission and camp. The famUy name
has become well known in Dayton
through the community service which
Paul Levengood has rendered as city
council member and mayor of Dayton
for eight years.

PLAN NOW TO ATTEND THE
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JULY 16-23, 1977

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TRUSTEE SPEAKER

Mrs. Chff Barrows, a trustee of
Bryan, was special speaker for the
October meeting of the Bryan
Women's Auxiliary in the Brock Bicen-
tennial Hall of the Rudd Memorial
Chapel.

The wife of the song leader for
Billy Graham, Mrs. Barrows was the
first pianist for Graham's evangelistic
ministry. She is the mother of five
children, one of whom, Betty Ruth,
attended Bryan for two years and is
now the wife of David Seera '74, a
teacher in the science department of
the Rhea County High School.

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SPORTS

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SOCCER LIONS GAIN
SECOND STRAIGHT NCCAA CROWN

Bryan became the first Christian
College in America to win the National
Christian College Athletic Association
soccer championship for two consecu-
tive years by defeating Grace College
2-1 in the final game on November 20.
Last year Bryan won the tournament
in Harrisonburg, Vs., and gained a
berth in this year's contest as the host
team. Approximately 80 colleges were
in competition for the title.

The Lions beat LeTourneau Col-
lege in the semi-final contest, also by a
2-1 mark. The other team in the
tourney. King's College, took third-
place honors over LeTourneau by a
1-0 count.

Both of Bryan's victories came in
overtime. Rocky DaCosta scored the
winning goal against LeTourneau and
Ngugi Githuka the clincher against
Grace. Luke Germann had a part in all
four Lion goals, scoring one himself
and assisting on the other three.

Bryan had six players on the
eleven-member NCCAA all-tourna-
ment team— Germann, of Nashville,
Tenn., originally from Switzerland;
Githuka, of Limuru, Kenya; DaCosta,
of Devonshire, Bermuda; John
Shalanko, of Quito, Ecuador; goalie
Brian Chapman, of Pompano, Fla. ; and
Carlos Vega, of Tela, Honduras.
Shalanko was also named Most Valu-
able Player in the tournament.

The Lions finished their season
with an overall record of 6-5-3, which
included top honors in the Southern
Christian Athletic Conference and
second place in the Tennessee Inter-
collegiate Soccer Association. AU-con-
ference honors for TISA went to Ger-
mann, Shalanko (for the fourth con-
secutive year), Vega, and Charlie
Goodman, of Athens, Ala.

CROSS COUNTRY

Bryan's cross-country team, led by
the superior running of Eric Clarke
and Mike Wood, finished the regular
season with a record of 12-4 in dual
meets.

The Lions took first place in the
Bryan Invitational for the third conse-
cutive year, beating out nine other
teams for the title on October 9.
Bryan finished third in the Fisk Invita-
tional, second in the Southern
Christian Athletic Conference (SCAC)
run, and third in the NAIA District 24
race.

In competition with 13 schools in
the National Christian College Run at
Grace College, Bryan finished fifth
with Eric Clarke placing second indivi-
dually and being named to the AU-
American Squad.

Other top runners for Bryan dur-
ing the season were Mike Bagdanovich,
Carrollton, Ga.; Kevin Davey, Cam-
bridge, Ohio; Tom Hatten, Hunting-
ton, W. Va.; Tommy Lane, Trenton,
Ga.; Chris Mc Adams, Conyers, Ga.;
and Don Yentes, Greensburg, Ind.

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
CHAMPIONSHIP

The women's volleyball team
became the first women's athletic
team from Bryan ever to win a con-
ference championship when they
captured the SCAC title on October
23. Three weeks later, the Cinderella
team, as they were called by the

officials in Murfreesboro, came home
with a Tennessee State Volleyball
Championship. Bryan's Lionettes were
competing in the non-AIAW division
of the state's small colleges and swept
through four matches to claim top
billing. The gals, under the direction of
SCAC Coach-of-the-Year Don Hewlett,
hit a third peak when they finished
second in the eight-team Covenant In-
vitational Tournament early in Novem-
ber.

In the Murfreesboro meet for state
honors, the Lady Lions conquered
Freed-Hardeman, Trevecca, and South-
western in two-game victories over
each team to gain a well-earned berth
in the title match. Because of an
earlier eUmination of MaryviUe, South-
western was set up for a rematch with
Bryan for the title when the Lady
Lynxcats handed the Lionettes a 15-8
defeat to open the best two-of-three
match. Bryan bounced back to take
the second game 15-1. The third con-
test was a nip-and-tuck affair with a
13-13 deadlock as time ran out. But
Bryan scored the next two points to
bring home the championship.

Louise Burt, of Lima, Peru, Most
Valuable Player in both the SCAC and
Covenant tourneys, led the Lionettes
to a fine 20-4 season record. Captain
Kathy McReynolds, of Dayton, Ohio,
and Barbie Puckett, of Williamsport,
Pa., together with Louise Burt, were
named to the All-State Volleyball
team at the state tourney. Other Bryan
starters listed with their hometowns
were Sheila McGill, Daisy, Tenn.;
Jeanie Fletcher, Nasuli, Philippines;
and Jenny Meznar, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Completing the 12-girl squad were
Donna Koch, Ephrata, Pa.; Lynette
Goehring, Fortaleza, Brazil; Nancy
Giberson, Bath, New Brunswick; Dawn
Fuller, Liberty, N. Y.; Susan Smith,
Waxhaw, N.C.; and Shannon Thomas,
Vicksburg, Miss.

The volleyball champions are shown with Coach Don Hewlett and Captain McReynolds in
front; standing at left is manager Linda Ciabtree, who is flanked by players McGill,
Giberson, Goehring, Koch, Meznar, Burt, Smith, Fuller, Fletcher, Puckett, and Thomas.

-Rhea County News photo

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BALDWIN MULTI-WAVEFORM ORGAN

Donated
as a

Memorial Gift

Through a generous memorial gift, a cus-
tom-designed IVlulti-Waveform Organ for the
Rudd Memorial Chapel is being manufactured
by the Baldwin Organ Company in Fayetteville,
Arkansas. Deriving from discoveries and inven-
tions beginning in 1946, this newly developed
instrument has been on the market for about
five years. The Multi-Waveform organ provides
the standard hand-crafted console built strictly
according to American Guild of Organists speci-
fications and played by the same procedures as
any pipe organ console. The organ sound is re-
leased by a light photography system activating
computer-stored pipe-organ sounds which are
amplified through the Electro-Acoustic pipes
visible on each side of the auditorium. Similar
instruments have recently been ordered by
Taylor University and a prestigious music hall
in New York City. Installation of the new organ
for Bryan is planned for the last week in April
1977.

Dedication of Rudd Memorial Chapel

MAY 1.1977

Pledges being paid

RUDD CHAPEL
PROGRESS REPORT

Funds still needed

The classrooms and auditorium of the Rudd Chapel have been in
use since the beginning of school even though finishing touches are
still being added. The week of November 1 marked the first full use
of the auditorium after the installation of 848 auditorium seats.
Curtains for the stage were also installed for use in November.

Although the physical construction is now complete, new funds
in the amount of $140,000 are still needed to pay for the building, in
addition to $126,400 in pledges, which are being paid on a regular
schedule. The total cost of the building, including the new organ, is
$1,095,000.

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Total Project

$1 ,095,000

(including organ)

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and development. Bryan offers fully accredited liberal
arts studies with the option of working out your own
goal-oriented program under the guidance of qualified
faculty members, nearly one half of whom hold the
earned doctorate.

Consider these additional features:

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Music Teams • Beautiful Hilltop Campus

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IDENTIFICATIONS:

FRONT COVER

Portrait of Dr. Rudd to be hung in
the Rudd Memorial Chapel
foyer. Photograph by Cunnyng-
ham Studios.

BACK COVER

Bryan's gold uniforms identify
the Lions in the game in which
they won the 1976 SCAC tourn-
ament by defeating Lee College
in the Bradley County gym in
Cleveland, Tenn.

Volume 2

SPRING 1977

Number 3

TEMPTATION— REALITY AND REMEDY: A Bryan professor 3

examines the areas of temptation common to the behever and points
out the sure remedy available from God's Word.

MRS. RUDD REFLECTS ON BRYAN'S BEGINNINGS: Mrs. Rudd 6

reminisces on how the Lord led her and Dr. Rudd to Bryan, where a
teaching position opened the door to the college presidency.

A STUDENT LOOKS AT PCI: One student finds practical Christian 7

service to be a major ingredient in his own personal spiritual de-
velopment.

INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES: The first of a four-part series 8

on the authority of the Scriptures reaffirms the commitment of Bryan
to an authoritative and inerrant Scripture.

CAMPUS REVIEW: Lectures, dramas, concerts, and opera dem- 10

onstrate the versatility of the Rudd Chapel auditorium.

SPORTS REVIEW: Winning basketball season confirms a near- 14

record athletic year.

RETIREMENT INVESTMENT SUPPORTS PRESENT MINISTRY: 15

A current staff member demonstrates her confidence in Bryan's
present and future.

DITORI/VL

It is eminently appropriate that the newest
and most impressive building of the college
be named to honor Dr. Rudd, who was as-
sociated with Bryan from 1931 (the second
year of the college) until his death in October
1970, a little over 39 years later. He was truly
"a man for all seasons," performing during
those years nearly every kind of function
associated with a college. Augmenting his
impressive versatility were his warm hu-
manity and his true spirituality.
Dr. Rudd was not unlike the believers of former times enumerated in the
eleventh chapter of Hebrews in their relationship to the fulfillment of the
promises of the old covenant. He saw the potential of Bryan; he endured,
"seeing Him who is invisible"; and he died in the faith, not having lived to see
the greater fulfillment of Bryan's potential as realized in recent years, but, like
the men and women of old, believing fully in the promise of that potential. I
have not forgotten his wise words of counsel to me and our years of fellowship
together.

Inasmuch as Dr. Rudd struggled for years with college debts, meager funds,
inadequate facilities, and with many other inescapable deficiencies of those
pioneer years, it will be an even greater tribute to him if this handsome and
functional building named to honor him can be dedicated free from debt. To
that end every effort is being made to secure commitments to underwrite the
remaining $131,000 by May 1. I urge all Bryan friends to support this project
with their prayers and whenever possible with their gifts.

Theodore C. Mercer

TWO

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Teitiptaticii :

Ideality and l^eitiedy

by W. Gary PhiUips

lemptation to sin may be defined as "the entice-
ment of a person to commit sin by the prospect of some
seeming pleasure or advantage."' Being the object of
temptation to sin is one of the common denominators of
being human. A shrewd man once said, "The man who
has no problems with temptation is the man who always
yields!" No matter what age, no matter what economic
or social status, no matter what level of spiritual matu-
rity or immaturity, temptation to sin invades our con-
sciousness. It may come toward us galloping boldly or
discreetly slithering through the underbrush, but it is
there.

The purpose of this study is to glean some principles
from key Scriptures which may aid our escape when
temptation beckons. Each of these may be seen in the
"classic" passage describing human temptation to sin.
Genesis 3, but of course in many other Scriptures also.
These are not exhaustive (books could be written on the
subject) nor have the Scriptures been milked for all they
are worth. Furthermore, some of them may overlap.
Nevertheless, these principles are basic and common to
our Christian experience. When we see how temptation
can operate, we will be able to focus in on God's rem-
edy.

1. TEMPTATION MAY DISTORT REALITY

As Christians, we, of all people, should have a proper
perspective of ourselves and our relationships. We un-
derstand that we are sinful beings with two natures
warring within for mastery and that God is a God of
love, who has implanted the "new" nature. This is
reality, clearly revealed in Scripture.

Temptation, however, may distort this picture of re-
ality. In Genesis 3 the serpent used this tactic on Eve.
First, he distorted the picture of God by denying the
judgment of God ("You surely shall not die!") and the
goodness of God (impugning (jod's motives: "For God
knows. ..your eyes will be opened. ..you will be like
God!"). God is pictured as the villain, who desires to
impose only don'ts on those who follow Him. This pic-
ture of God. camping only on the negatives, is very
different from that of a loving Creator, who desires to
give. Actually, the bountiful provision of God, which
God mentioned first (2: 16-17), is completely ignored by
Satan, whereas the one lone prohibition is magnified:
"How dare God do this to you!" Of course, when the
picture of God is distorted, the picture of sin becomes
distorted as well. No longer is it so forbidding; no longer
is it such a personal affront to a loving God. who is also
holy and must judge sin.

"Temptation may also use this same tactic (distortion
of reality) in a much more subtle way. For example, all
of us, as Chrisfians, are under constant pressure to
"adopt attitudes" of those around us. The experience
of "waking up" from a television show and realizing
that the values we have thoroughly enjoyed watching
and agreeing with are completely against Biblical

W. GARY PHILLIPS has been
instructor of Greek and Bible at
Bryan since 1975. He came from Dallas Theological Seminary,
where he had received the Th.M. in Greek in May and had also
won the Rollin Thomas Chafer Award in Apologetics. Originally
from Chattanooga, Tenn., where his parents still live, Mr. Phillips
graduated from Baylor School for Boys and then earned the B.A,
from Vanderbilt University with an interdepartmental major in
math, philosophy, and English. In his first year of teaching at
Bryan, he was voted "Teacher of the Year" by the students and in
1976 was listed in Outstanding Young Men in America. He and his
wife, the former Betsy Woodard, of Signal Mountain. Tenn., have
a son, David Paul. Mrs. Phillipsisanexampleof a faculty wife who
began her college career elsewhere but completed it at Bryan.

standards is a common one. But while we are watching
it, the way the story was presented made it seem just
"so right" for the hero to divorce his wife (she was a
real witch anyway) and marry (or start living with) the
heroine. Our minds have been unconsciously saturated
with a perversion of the Tenth Commandment: "Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife in vain."

Can we live with two such interpretations of reality?
Both cannot be right.

God's Remedy:

We must bring the temptation into the focus of reality
by backing up and thinking about what we are tempted
to do or to agree with. God is not an oppressive ogre but
a God of love, who desires to keep us from temptation
(Matt. 6: 13). Further, the results of yielding to the temp-
tation will be vastly different from what we may be
expecting (in the "distorted" view). After Eve and
Adam yielded to temptation, there grew about them a
sense of guilt and shame, not that sense of power and
majesty which they were so pitifully awaiting! What
promises to be so enjoyable may lead only to deep
depression and guilt, as well as to alienation and chas-
tisement from the Lord (Heb. 12:5-13). Just to see how
this idea might work, try an experiment: Sometime
while you are watching a typical television show, turn
off the sound (it's amazing what the lack of violin music
will do to ruin a love scene). Then imagine that the hero
has just come back from running ten miles or that the
heroine has just eaten an onion pizza. In this way the
temptation is brought back into the focus of reaUty!

2. TEMPTATION IS MORE INTENSE WHEN WE ARE

NEAR THAT WHICH TEMPTS US

Though this is almost an axiom, it is seldom thought
about and acted upon. Obviously, if I know of some-
thing that attracts me (which I know is wrong) I will be
less likely to yield if I do not hover around it! It is not
wise, for example, for a dieter to enter a bakery "just to
window-shop" or for a kleptomaniac to seek a job as a
bank teller.

The exact dimensions of the Garden of Eden are not
known to us, but clearly there was ample space for Eve
to roam without being close to that one prohibited tree,

SPRING 1977

THREE

Teitiptatico: Ceality and Remedy

the focal point of her temptation. The adultery of King
David provides a more pointed example. Though David
did not know (apparently) that Bathsheba would be
exposed on a nearby roof or in a nearby courtyard, he
was clearly out of the place where God would have him
be. The stage is set for David's sin with the words "at
the time when kings go out to battle... David stayed in
Jerusalem" (2 Sam. 11:1). Had David been in his right-
ful place at the head of Israel's army (instead of shifting
that responsibility onto someone else), the sin that
marred the rest of David's life and ultimately marked
bloodshed and destruction for the rest of the nation
would never have taken place. "David's lifework was
that of fighting God's battles; but here we find him idle,
off his guard, tarrying in Jerusalem when it was the time
for battle. Satan quickly took advantage of that!" (Jen-
sen, 1, 2 Samuel Self-Study Guide, p. 94).

God's Remedy:

When we realize that something is tempting us, we
must get away fast before its teeth sink in. The example
of Joseph is instructive (Genesis 39). In the first place,
when Potiphar's wife continued to proposition Joseph
sexually "day after day," this wise young man refused
to "listen to her.. .or Zjew;?/; her." He stayed away! But
even so, the temptation was persistent, and she eventu-
ally entrapped him. Joseph's response again was in line
with what he knew God would have him do: "He left his
garment in her hand and fled" (compare 2 Tim. 2:22 —
"flee youthful lusts"). In other words, the best place for
a young couple who have trouble controlling desires is
not in a parked car. Such laxity is playing with dyna-
mite.

3. TEMPTATION MAY BE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN WE
HAVE HAD NO FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHER BELIEV-
ERS

I know from personal experience the tremendous
value of supportive Christian fellowship in an environ-
ment basically hostile to Christianity. When I was in
college, the greatest joy I had was fellowship with other
believers on campus in Bible studies and prayer groups .
This fellowship proved to be a tremendous reservoir
from which to draw spiritual strength when faced with
various temptations. Without that supportive element,
yielding to temptation is much more likely. God has
made us, as the Body of Christ, spiritually dependent
beings. We are dependent upon the Head of the Body,
Christ; we are also dependent upon other members of
the Body (1 Cor. 12:14-27). Whenever this element of
fellowship is missing, we lack the strength that can
come from this good gift of God. Our potential for
strength is reduced just as if we were lacking a limb. A
hand by itself can do little unless it is anchored to the
body. Apparently Eve was alone when facing the temp-
ter. Perhaps had Adam been there from the first, their
combined strength might have made a difference.

God's Remedy:

The solution is transparent. We must seek out fellow-
ship and mutual support from other members of the
body of Christ. In his book. Born Again, Charles S.
Colson repeatedly emphasizes that without the fellow-
ship of his prayer group he would not have made it
through the Watergate trials and prison. We are to bear
one another's burdens (Gal. 6:2), and being tempted
would certainly qualify in God's dictionary for "bur-
den." Daniel provides a supreme example of this con-

cept. When all Nebuchadnezzar's "wise men" (includ-
ing Daniel and his three companions) were under edict
of condemnation for not interpreting the king's dream,
Daniel asked for time in which to declare the dream and
its interpretation (2:16). The next statement is momen-
tous: "Then Daniel went to his house and informed his
friends... about the matter, in order that they might re-
quest compassion from the God of heaven concerning
this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends might not be
destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel." This man,
facing perhaps the most important task of his life (and,
no doubt, tempted to fear and to doubt God' s ability and
God's preservation) sought out the fellowship of his
companions and their prayer support! Surely we must
do the same.
4. TEMPTATION MAY COME AT A TIME OF GREAT

SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OR TRIUMPH

This seems a curious statement. Are not the "moun-
taintop" experiences and the times of spiritual victory
and blessing also the times of greatest spiritual
strength? Unfortunately they are not. One of Satan's
common battlegrounds is a mountaintop — a spiritual
mountaintop. Satan is a brilliant strategist and knows
that at these times we might tend to become overconfi-
dent, spiritually idle and let down our guard. We may
forget that the recent spiritual victory was not won
through our own strength, but through the Lord's
strength. Actually, why should Satan attack a Christian
whom God is not using? According to his tactics, "the
next best thing to a damned soul is a neutralized Chris-
tian!" (Martin, Screwtape Writes Again, p. 10). From
Satan's standpoint, only those whose lives reflect
spiritual victory merit his full attention as tempter.

As we might expect, the Bible provides ample evi-
dence for this tactic. It was in the midst of daily com-
munion with God that Eve was tempted. It was just
after David had been installed as king of both Judah and
Israel and the Lord was giving him many military vic-
tories that he let down his guard and stayed home. It
was after the incredible victory over powerful Jericho
that the overconfident Israelites were defeated by little
Ai (Joshua 7). It was after the astounding victory over
the prophets of Baal that Elijah fled from Jezebel. It was
immediately after the Lord gave the covenant to Abram
(promising to make him a great nation) that, when a
famine came, he fled to Egypt from the land to which
God had called him (Gen. 12:20). In view of the fact that
Abram (as well as others) is described as a man of faith,
how may we hope not to fall?
God's Remedy:

As believers we are urged repeatedly in Scripture to
be ever on the alert! "Keep watching and praying, that
you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing,
but the flesh is weak" (Matt. 26:41). How much more is
this admonition applicable in times of spiritual triumph,
when potentially we may be more vulnerable! The con-
tinuing narrative of Genesis 12 demonstrates the result
of Abram's watchfulness. After his recorded failure in
falling to the temptation (12:10-20), he returned to the
land to which God had called him. Another problem
immediately arose which Abram used as an opportunity
to exhibit his faith. He had learned his lesson. Rather
than run away from the problem, he met it squarely this
time; and the result was blessing from the Lord (13:14-
18). Why did Abram not fall to the temptation as he had

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done before? This time he was watchful; his guard was
up. The first thing he had done on re-entering the land
was to consecrate himself to the Lord again and re-arm
himself spiritually ("there Abram called on the name of
the Lord" — 13:4). This was the source of his new
strength.

5. TEMPTATION MAY BE BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION
THAT GOD'S WORD IS SUBJECT TO OUR JUDGMENT

This principle needs careful explanation. Ever since
Satan's challenge to Eve, "Yea, hath God said?"
doubting God's Word has been a basic factor in a be-
liever's yielding to temptation. It is an invitation to pass
judgment on whether or not God really meant what He
said, if indeed God had spoken. Too often Bible study
can be approached with the motive of finding "as many
reasons as possible why this does not apply to me. ' ' Yet
the Bible is essential, all of it, for both "faith and prac-
tice" (that is, belief and behavior). If we regard the
voice of God to us as anything less than completely
authoritative, we are exposed; there is a gap in our
armor, because we have no offensive weapon.

One common denial of God's Word regarding temp-
tation is the denial of God's promise to judge and punish
sin. Regarding the eating of the forbidden fruit, God had
forcefully said, "You shall surely die!" Eve, referring
to God's prohibition, showed little respect for God's
word when she diminished the penalty, "lest you die."
Satan, not merely showing little respect but actually
denying, replied, "You surely shall not die!" (It is
interesting that in the Hebrew, though Eve misquoted
God, Satan quoted God to the letter, simply adding a
negative to God's pronouncement.) Eve "swallowed"
the deception. But the Bible is very clear about judg-
ment: "Whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap."
This applies across the board to believer and unbeliever
alike. The basis for such a claim is the statement preced-
ing it: "God is not mocked" (Gal. 6:7).

God's Remedy:

There can be no better example of offensive spiritual
warfare than that of our Lord, who met temptation with
an intimate working knowledge of the Word of God (see
Matt. 4:4,7,10 for the counter to each of Satan's at-
tacks). If this defense was necessary for God's Son (the
Word made flesh!), how much more should we as fol-
lowers of Jesus copy His example in this vital tactic! As
Christians we are given armor and urged to make use of
it (Eph. 6). The only offensive weapon included in that
armament is the "sword of the Spirit, which is the Word
of God" (v. 17). If we are not skillful in its use, we
diminish our chances for spiritual victory over tempta-
tion. A soldier under attack is not allowed the luxury of
a pause by his attacker so that he may put on his armor.
He must be skilled and ready from the first if he would
survive.

It is important for us to know that Scripture also can
be misused. When our Lord was tempted, Satan used
Scripture to try to break down Jesus' resistance (Matt.
4:6). One might say that Satan knew "all the right
words." But Jesus countered with other Scripture, a
fact which led to A. W. Tozer's observation that the
whole truth of God is not contained in "it is written" so
much as in "again, it is written" (that is , the systematic
study of comparing Scripture with Scripture). Thus we
are encouraged in 2 Timothy 2:5 to "be diligent to
present yourself approved to God as a workman who

does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the
word of truth." This is a tested and proven method for
fending off temptation.

6. THE MORE WE CONTEMPLATE THAT WHICH
TEMPTS US, THE MORE LIKELY WE ARE TO FALL
TO THE TEMPTATION.

Again, not only is this axiomatic, it is also Scriptural.
The more we purpose in our hearts to lust, for example,
the more likely we eventually are to commit adultery. I
sincerely doubt that David simply "glanced" at
Bathsheba. James describes temptation as a clear pro-
gression (James 1:14-15). The object of lust is con-
templated so that lust "conceives"; eventually it
"gives birth" to the sinful act itself (note the final
product — death). To carry James's illustration of birth
further, just as a child is alive before the actual moment
of birth, so sin does not begin to be sinful only when it is
manifest in a specific, visible action. Sin works its way
out (Matt. 5:28). Joshua 7 traces the defeat of Israel to
the sin of one man, Achan. The verbs which describe
the progression of this man's sin are eloquent: "I
saw. ..I coveted...! took." This may be seen in Genesis
3 also. Note that Eveiaw the tree; this was more than a
mere glance. The same Hebrew word occurs later in
Gen. 30:1,9. In both verses the word refers to a long,
deliberate process on contemplation "Rachel 5aw that
she bore Jacob no children' ' ! The result of such contem-
plation on sin is usually inescapable.

God's Remedy:

Instead of filling our minds with evil thoughts, we are
to set our minds on higher things! "Whatever is true ...
honorable . . . right . . . pure . . . lovely . . . of good repute , if
there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise,
let your mind dwell on these things" (Phil. 4:8). Note
that this is commanded as an act of the will. God does
not give His children hollow commands; it is within the
ability of our Spirit-led wills to obey.

Hebrews 12:2 is also appropriate: "Let us also lay
aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily
entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that
is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus!" There is
more behind this exhortation than meets the eye. The
author of Hebrews has repeatedly made the point that
Jesus was tempted in all things as we are, yet without
sin (2:18; 4:13-16). Nevertheless, the difference in the
degree of temptation is staggering. Because Jesus did
not yield. He experienced a much greater and more
intense degree of temptation than we ever could (just as
only the runner who finishes the twenty-five-mile
marathon understands completely how grueling the
race can be, not the man who drops out after ten miles.)
It is upon this sympathetic Savior that we are to fix our
gaze, not upon the object of our temptation.

We have seen from these few Scriptures how tempta-
tion operates. Again, it must be repeated that many
other Scriptures illuminate these as well as other prin-
ciples. But no matter what tactic the Enemy may use, it
is comforfing to know that God has prepared for us a
corresponding remedy, as He promised: "The Lord
knows how to rescue the godly from temptation" (2
Peter 2:9) and "No temptation has overtaken you but
such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will
not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able,
but with the temptation will provide the way of escape
also, that you may be able to endure it" (1 Cor. 10: 13).

SPRING 1977

FIVE

Mrs. Rudd
Reflects on
Bryan's Beginnings

1 can remember when only one
Bryan student had a car on campus,
and now it is a problem to find a
place to park," Mrs. Judson A.
Rudd reminisced about early days
at Bryan College. In a recent inter-
view, the widow of the man for
whom Rudd Memorial Chapel is
named, described her feelings as
she accompanied her husband to
Bryan in 1931.

Young Judson A. Rudd had
taught mathematics for a year at the
University of Alabama and had
spent the following year working on
his father's ranch in southern Col-
orado. Drought had brought hard
times to the ranch, already beset
with the economic depression that
followed the stock market crash of
1929. When the young professor
wished to resume his teaching
career and re-applied to the Univer-
sity of Alabama for a position on the
faculty, he was told that no vacan-
cies existed there but that a small
"university" in Dayton, Tennes-
see, was looking for a person with
his qualifications. After applying to
Bryan and receiving an appoint-
ment as professor of mathematics,
he with his wife began their arduous
journey to the then Httle-known col-
lege.

This interview was conducted by
Charles H. Robinson, assistant director
of public relations, with Mrs. Judson
Rudd, who makes her home on the col-
lege campus. Mrs. Rudd is a native of
central Kansas and later lived in
Olathe, where her father, Rev. W. W.
Searcy, was pastor of the First Baptist
Church. Mr. and Mrs. Searcy made
their home in Dayton in their later years.
Mrs. Rudd is a graduate of Ottawa
(Kansas) University, where she met her
husband, who also graduated at Ottawa.
Mrs. Rudd has one daughter. Miss Mary
Frances Rudd, director of continuing
education and evening instruction at
Motlow State Community College in
Tullahoma, Tenn.

Mrs. Judson A. Rudd, assisted by her
daughter. Miss Mary Frances Rudd,
turns the first spadeful of earth for the
Rudd Memorial Chapel of Bryan Col-
lege.

"It seemed that the Lord had
opened up the opportunity," Mrs.
Rudd recalls now. The automobile
trip from Colorado to Tennessee
took five days, and Mrs. Rudd still
remembers a stretch of dirt road be-
tween Chattanooga and Dayton.

The couple arrived in Dayton five
days after school had opened.
Weary from their journey, they got
their first glimpse of the Bryan cam-
pus at dusk. "Much to our sur-
prise," she comments today,
"there were no buildings here. It
was the biggest disappointment of
my life." Had they not been so far
from home, they might have turned
back.

The now beautiful and commodi-
ous administration building was
then a vast unfinished basement.
Classes met in the abandoned high
school building downtown. What is
now Cedar Hill dormitory had been
built three years previously as a
hospital, but it had failed like many
other business ventures of that day.
The college leased the edifice in
1932 and used it for a women's dor-
mitory and for faculty apartments.
It was there that the Rudds lived

until 1938, when they moved to the
expanding administration building
and had an apartment where the
present main library is located.

Dr. George Guille, then president
of the college, died quite suddenly
just six weeks after the Rudds' arri-
val. Dr. Malcolm Lockhart, vice
president, succeeded Dr. Guille.
Within a short time, he resigned on
advice of his physician; and Dr.
Rudd became acting president and
later president.

"They tried hard," Mrs. Rudd re-
lates, "to find someone else to take
the presidency of Bryan, but it
seemed that no qualified person
wanted to risk his reputation by as-
suming leadership of a school which
few believed would survive."
Likewise many people would not
invest their money in an institution
whose future was as uncertain as
Bryan's. How the school survived
the economic struggle during Dr.
Rudd's twenty-two years of wise
and prayerful leadership is another
story.

Rudd Memorial Chapel stands
today as a monument to those trying
and difficult years when the charac-
ter of the school was being ham-
mered out on the anvil of faith. Its
presence attests to the faith of one
man while assuring all men that
Bryan College is still a quaHty iq-
stitution of higher learning where
"Christ Above All" is more than
just a motto. It is a reality.

CALENDAR

RUDD MEMORIAL CHAPEL
DEDICATION

April 30 ORGAN RECITAL

8:00 p.m. Don Hustad

May 1 BUFFET SUPPER

5:30 p.m. Rudd and Ryther friends
Brock Bicentennial Hall

7:30 p.m. UNVEILING OF

RUDD PORTRAIT
Rudd family and Alumni

8:00 p.m. DEDICATION SERVICE
Rev. Cliff Barrows, speaker

COMMENCEMENT

May 1 BACCALAUREATE

3:00 p.m. Dr. Jack Dark, preac/ier

May 2 GRADUATION

10:00 a.m. Senior Speakers

SIX

BRYAN LIFE

A SENIOR LOOKS AT PCI

iVly first contact with a gospel
team came as a freshman when I
was asked to accompany an
evangelistic team to Atlanta. Be-
ginning with that weekend, I have
had many opportunities for service
in PCI that have changed my life.

For the last three years at Bryan.
I have been the vice president of
PCI in charge of the gospel team
ministry. This responsibility has
helped me to develop in the area of
leadership and has been beneficial
in my summer ministry with the
gospel messengers. Frequent con-
tact with students and with pastors
has forced me to become more ex-
troverted in personality. It has been
a great opportunity for me to learn
how to work more effectively with
people of all ages and vocations.

I have grown to appreciate the
many areas of ministry that are pro-
vided for the students to meet their
various needs. I have seen how the
other ministries of PCI, such as the

by Charlie Loshbough

AWANA program. Bible classes for
children, summer missions pro-
gram, nursing home ministry, and
even the Student Foreign Missions
Fellowship, all are working toward
one common end — to provide op-
portunities for the students to serve
and also to be stimulated in their
spiritual growth. It has been a real
joy for me to see changes in the lives
of students as they have partici-
pated in the various ministries, and I
have also appreciated the opportu-
nity to serve in a position that gives
a needed outlet away from the re-
quirements of academic life.

I recognize the Lord's will in pro-
viding the opportunities that have
been mine in the past four years. It
is obvious that the practical training
afforded me is just one more part of
the total education I have received
at Bryan College. This practical ex-
perience will have an effect on the
musical work that I will be engaged
in when I leave Bryan in May.

Charlie Loshbough

Practical Christian Involvement is the
name of Bryan's student Christian service
organization. This year some 330 volun-
teers have participated in 1 1 various minis-
tries. Charles Loshbough, a senior major-
ing in church music, who has been active
in PCI since his first year, evaluates his
experiences. Charlie, as he is known on
campus, is a native of Portland, Oregon;
but since 1974 his family has resided in
Canada, where his father is a pastor. Mr.
Loshbough, who is also a Bryan graduate,
and his wife are currently living in Biggar,
Saskatchewan.

SPRING 1977

SEVEN

HQo© Di@[f)a[raifD®[io ®{

1 he first article of the Statement of Faith of Bryan

College, which is endorsed every year by each member

of the faculty, as well as the Board of Trustees, reads:

"We believe that the Holy Bible, composed of the

Old and New Testaments, is of final and supreme

authority in faith and life, and being inspired by God,

is inerrant in the original writings."

In the perilous times in which we live, it is of tre-
mendous importance to have a spiritual anchor.
Through the years, Bryan College has been held true to
the high purposes of its founders by this anchor — the
Word of God.

What is meant when it is said that the Bible is "in-
spired by God?" Perhaps the basic point is to be found
in the meaning of the Greek word translated "inspira-
tion of God" in II Timothy 3: 16, "All Scripture is given
by inspiration of God." This word means "God-
breathed." Can you conceive of anything which could
more aptly convey the idea of coming from the very
depth of one's being? The Bible issues from the very
heart of God, as one's breath issues from the very heart
of one's body.

Then, too, the part of this Greek word which means
"breathed" is derived from the same root which is often
translated "spirit," sometimes referring to the human
spirit and sometimes to the Holy Spirit. II Peter 1:21
explicitly teaches that the Holy Spirit was the inspirer
of the authors. Not only does the Bible come to us from
the heart of God, but it is vitally connected with the
work of the Holy Spirit.

All of this means that when men turn to the Bible,
they turn to a book which speaks with the authority of
God Himself, for this is God's Book. Indeed, this is the
testimony of the Bible to itself. It is said that the Old
Testament contains at least 2,600 references to its di-
vine origin, such as "Thus saith the Lord," "The word
of the Lord came," or other phrases. Paul said to the
Corinthians, "If any man thinketh himself to be a
prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the
things which I write unto you, that they are the com-
mandment of the Lord" (I Cor. 14:37).

Of final authority to the heart of the believer is the
testimony of our Lord Jesus. He quoted as authoritative
each of the three divisions of the Jewish canon of Scrip-
ture, and, in addition, made the statement found in
Matthew 5:18, "Till heaven and earth pass away, one
jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law,
till all things be accomplished."

Furthermore, He validated in advance the authority

byK

of the New Testament by telling His disciples, "Ths
Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father wil
send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and brinj
to your remembrance all that I said unto you. . . .Wher
the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from'
the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth
from the Father, he shall bear witness of me. . . .When
he, the Spirit of truth is come, he shall guide you into all
truth. . . and he shall declare unto you the things that are

to come" (John 14:26; 15:26; 16:13).

God-breathed, mediated by the Holy SpiritJ

authoritative — these are some of the things involved ir|

the meaning of inspiration.

Another fascinating aspect of this topic is the method
of inspiration. Two factors have to be recognized. Thej
first of these factors is the divine. Whatever else may be'
involved, inspiration means above all that God the
Father, through the Holy Spirit, brought into being this
authoritafive book, which tells man of God's supreme
revelation of Himself through Jesus Christ. When the
Bible speaks , it speaks not with the voice of man but
with the voice of God.

The other factor is the human. God did not miracu-
lously create the Bible out of nothing, as He could have
done, but He chose to use men as His instruments in its
production. And He used them just as they were, with
their individual peculiarities of speech, vocabularies,
cultural backgrounds, literary styles, and all the other
human characteristics which distinguish men one from
the other. It is for this reason that it is important to study
the historical background of the Bible, since God has
spoken in the midst of history.

It is in the blending of these two factors that the great
miracle of inspiration is to be seen. The Holy Spirit has
taken human beings, with all their individual per-
sonalities, and has used them to convey God's message
authoritatively and infallibly, so that the Bible saysi
exactly what God intended that it should say. When the,
Bible speaks, God speaks. The words of men have
become the Word of God. And yet at the same time, the
individuality of the men who wrote the Bible has not
been obliterated. Indeed, it is often through a recogni-
tion and appreciation of their individualities that fresh
insights into God's Word may be obtained.

To go to either extreme in the matter of method leads
to a distorted view. Many liberals have emphasized the
human element at the expense of the divine, with the
result that the Bible has become for them merely

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another human document, with only that authority
which they wish to read into it. Some conservatives
have emphasized the divine at the expense of the hu-
man, so that the Bible has lost the "common touch"
and no longer speaks in terms which men can under-
stand.

If one had to choose either extreme, the emphasis on
the divine would doubtless be preferred. Happily, one
does not have to adopt an extreme view, but can under-
stand inspiration as the interaction of the two elements
under the superintendence of the Holy Spirit. This is
precisely what Peter refers to when he says, "Holy men
of God spake as they were moved [carried along] by the
Holy Spirit" (II Peter 1:21).

Actually, of course, this does not explain the method
of inspiration, which is ultimately beyond human ex-
planation. But it may perhaps afford some measure of
insight into the elements which , blended together by the
wisdom and power of God, have given men a book
which, trustworthy down to its very words, meets men
where they are and lifts them to a new life in Christ.

One point remains to be made. The message of inspi-
ration involves more than intellectual assent to certain
theological propositions orcreedal statements. Belief in
the inspiration of the Bible, vital and basic as it is,
becomes a hollow mockery unless it is translated into
changed behavior. Orthodox doctrine must produce an
orthodox life.

Here again the Bible itself bears eloquent testimony
when Paul says , " All Scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable forrfocfrme, ior reproof, for correc-
tion, for instruction in righteousness , that the man of God
may be complete, furnished completely unto every good
work. ' ' Those who believe in the inspiration of the Scrip-
tures need to be very sure that their behavior conforms
to their belief.

This, like the other aspects of inspiration, is the work
of the Holy Spirit. He who proceeds from the very being
of God, who overshadowed men as they wrote the
Word of God, He it is who, dwelling in the body of the
behever, can use the Word of God to transform human
life. He can turn an empty, hollow profession of or-
thodoxy into a full, rich possession of new life in Jesus
Christ. All He needs is a willing, yielded human being.

This is the great need of the Christian church today.
This is the great need of Bryan College today. Through
submission to God and prevaihng prayer, let us claim
this transformation for each one of us.

DR. KARL E. KEEPER, who holds the M.Ed., from the Univer-
sity of Chattanooga and the Ed.D. from the University of Tennes-
see Knoxville, has been dean of the school of education at the
University of Tennessee Martin since 1969. He v^^as administrative
vice president and academic dean at Bryan for nine years, 1957-
66. He has been a member of the Bryan Board of Trustees since
1971 and serves on the academic affairs committee. Both of Dr.
and Mrs. Keefer's sons, as well as their wives, are graduates of
Bryan.

The article printed here was originally prepared by Dr. Keefer in
1963 as one of a series of chapel messages delivered by four
Bryan faculty members. The series is being reprinted in four
successive issues of Bryan Life.

FAITH

Faith in faith is nothing;

Faith in God is everything!
Faith without God is illusion;

It is God who validates faith .

Faith does not save;

Christ saves!
Faith does not heal;

Christ heals!

Faith does not change human nature;

Christ changes human nature!
Faith is not a cause;

Faith is an effect!

Faith is not humanly generated;

Faith is a gift of God!
Faith in faith is futile;

Faith in God is triumphant.

Not because of faith
But because of God!

' 'By grace are you saved through faith;
and that (faith) not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God." Ephesians 2:8.

Quoted from Perspective, a bi-weekly devotional letter for
business and professional men by Richard C. Halverson.
Washington. D.C.

SPRING 1977

NINE

SS^f^^^H

CAMPUS
REVIEW

FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES

► Miss Ruth Kantzer, associate
professor of English, was awarded
the Ph.D. in English by the Univer-
sity of Iowa in December. The title
of her dissertation was "The Sig-
nificance of the Heart in the Works
of Nathaniel Hawthorne." Dr.
Kantzer, whose area of special in-
terest is American literature, is cur-

Dr. Ruth Kantzer

rently serving as chairman of the
division of literature and modern
languages.

Before joining the Bryan faculty
in 1973, Dr. Kantzer taught at
Cedarville College in Ohio, the
University of Wisconsin, and
Wheaton College in Illinois. She
earned the B.S. in English from
Ashland College, Ohio, and the
M.A. from the University of Wis-
consin.

Dr. Kantzer is the sister of Dr.
Kenneth Kantzer, dean of Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School, Deer-
field, 111., who delivered the Staley
Distinguished Christian Scholar
Lectures at Bryan in the fall of 1975.

► William L. Ketchersid, as-
sociate professor of history, led a
tour group to the Soviet Union dur-
ing spring vacation, March 8-16.
Accompanying Mr. Ketchersid
were Dr. and Mrs. Theodore
Mercer and students Joan Meznar,
a junior from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
and Jill Heisler, a sophomore from
Montoursville, Pa.

Flying to Moscow from New
York by way of Copenhagen, Den-

mark, the tourists spent three days
in the Soviet capital and then
traveled by train to Leningrad,
where they spent three days. The
train trip was broken by a one-day
stopover in Kalinin, formerly
known as Tver and one of Russia's
oldest cities with a history dating
back to the tenth century. It is now
one of the major industrial centers
of the Soviet tjnion.

Mr. Ketchersid made his first trip
to Soviet countries two years ago
and organized this year's tour in
cooperation with General Tours of
New York, the American organiza-
tion which directs more travel to the
Soviet Union than any other agen-
cy.

► Miss Zelpha Russell, director of
admissions, enjoyed a February
ten-day tour of Bible lands in Israel
and Rome with a Chattanooga tour
group sponsored by Dr. and Mrs.
Jacob Gartenhaus. The highlights of
her trip included two days in the
Tiberias area, where her hotel over-
looked the Sea of Galilee; three
days in Jerusalem with side trips to
Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, and
Jericho; a tour of the modern city of
Tel Aviv; and two days of sight-
seeing in the busy metropolis of
Rome. "It was a never-to-be-
forgotten experience," says Miss
Russell, "and I hope I can go
again."

► Dr. John B. Bartlett, vice presi-
dent and academic dean, was one of
the participants in the recent Con-
sulting Skills Workshop held at the
Leadership Center, Bethany Col-
lege, W. Va. Attended by
representatives from nearly fifty
colleges across the nation, the
workshop was organized by the
Council for the Advancement of
Small Colleges National Consulting
Network and financed by the W. K.
Kellogg Foundation. The Council
includes 158 small private colleges.

► Two faculty members of the

natural science division presented
papers before the Tennessee
Academy of Science during its 86th
annual meeting in November at the
University of Tennessee Chat-
tanooga. The theme of the meeting
was "Science yesterday, today, and
tomorrow."

Mrs. Betty W. Giesemann, in-
structor in chemistry and physics,
read a paper in the section for sci-
ence and mathematics teachers.
Her paper was entitled "Under-

graduate Research in the Small Col-
lege."

David L. Wolfe, instructor in
mathematics and a graduate in the
class of 1973, read a paper in the
mathematics section. His subject
was "The Asymptotic Behavior of
the Convolution Product of Real-
Valued Sequences."

NEW FACULTY

Two new appointments to the
faculty for next year will bring to 16
the number of full-time faculty
members holding the doctorate.

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Bobby J. Neil

Bobby J. Neil will graduate from
the New Orleans Baptist Theologi-
cal Seminary in May with the Ed.D.
degree in music and will join the
faculty as assistant professor of
music. Mr. Neil replaces Dr. J.
James Greasby, professor of music,
who has resigned after nine years on
the faculty.

Born across the river from Day-
ton in Athens, Tenn., Mr. Neil
graduated from McMinn County
High School and earned the B. A. in
music from Carson-Newman Col-
lege, Jefferson City, Tenn., and the
M.S.M. in church music adminis-
tration from Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary. He also
studied organ at Winthrop College,
S. C. The title of his doctor's disser-
tation is Philip P. Bliss (1838-1876):
Gospel Hymn Composer and Compiler.

He and his wife, JuUa, have two
sons. His hobbies are handcrafts
and collecting old hymnals.

Phillip E. Lestman, of Cypress,
Calif., will join the faculty as assist-
ant professor of mathematics. He
was the valedictorian of his class at
Valley High School in Cerritos,

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BRYAN LIFE

Phillip E. Lestman

Calif., and graduated magna cum
laude from Biola College with the
B.S. in mathematics. He is now at
UCLA on a teaching assistant
scholarship and expects to receive
the Ph.D. in mathematics at the
June commencement exercises.
Mr. Lestman is married and enjoys
sports and private study on a variety
of subjects. He replaces David
Wolfe "73, a one-year replacement
for Lloyd Matthes who joined the
faculty of Liberty College in
Lynchburg, Va., last fall.

INSTITUTIONAL

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

INAUGURATED

Bryan is one of 56 colleges in-
volved in a three-year program of
institutional development under a
project known as the Small College
Consortium. Sponsored by the
Council for the Advancement of
Small Colleges, the Consortium has
a membership representing all sec-
tions of the United States. Bryan
has received a first-year grant of
$22,000 to support the project,
which is being coordinated by Dr.
Mayme Bedford, dean of counsel-
ing services, and Glen Liebig, as-
sociate academic dean.

The first phase of the project, in-
volving planning, research, and
evaluation, used a faculty and ad-
ministrative survey which identified
retention of students as the most
pressing problem facing the college
in its institutional development.
Students were then surveyed to de-
termine what they particularly like
about Bryan, what policies or regu-
lations should be changed and what
ones should not be changed, what
people have been helpful and what

people add strength to the institu-
tion, and what problems need to be
resolved.

The results of the student survey,
answered by 405 students, and the
results of the surveys by the faculty
and administration were discussed
in small groups at the January fac-
ulty workshop; and the recom-
mendations generated are being
processed by appropriate commit-
tees or officials.

Other aspects of the institutional
development concern enrollment
and financial aid, academic and stu-
dent development, personnel man-
agement and development, and
fiscal resources management and
development. Several Bryan per-
sonnel have attended conferences
and management courses and have
also used the services of a consult-
ant on data information systems to
evaluate the need for a computer for
administrative purposes.

Members of an advising commit-
tee assisting Dr. Bedford and Mr.
Liebig are Dr. Paul Biggers, as-
sociate professor of education;
Martin Hartzell, assistant professor
of biology; Dr. Ruth Kantzer, as-
sociate professor and chairman of
the division of literature and mod-
ern languages; and President Theo-
dore Mercer.

In the early stages of its work, the
committee has decided to suggest
the formulation of a General Educa-
tion Council to deal with general
education and the integration of
faith and learning, with special at-
tention being given to the possibility
of developing a "freshman year
program" that would have the po-
tential of meeting more adequately
the needs of freshman students as
well as fulfilling the objectives of the
college. In addition, a quesfionnaire
is planned for mailing this spring to
parents of new and continuing stu-
dents regarding their expectations
of the college.

Additional reports on the prog-
ress of the institutional develop-
ment program will be made periodi-
cally.

CHRISTUN LIFE
CONFERENCE

In contrast to cold weather and a
snowfall, which extended Christ-
mas vacation for one day, was the
warm-hearted spiritual life confer-
ence conducted at the beginning of
the second semester by eight mem-
bers of the Navigators staff from
Tennessee and Kentucky. Led by

Dave Legg, director for the two-
state area, the conference included
morning and evening services in the
Rudd Chapel plus two seminars
each day which dealt with such top-
ics as developing a meaningful de-
votional life, setting up priorities
amidst pressures, disciple-making,
and managing finances.

Among the Navigator staff par-
ticipating were Roy Zinn, who di-
rects ministries at the University of
Tennessee Knoxville; Gordon
Adams, who represents Navigators
in Knoxville among the business
and professional community; and
Hal Denny, who is area director of
Louisville, Ky., community minis-
tries and supervisor of the Univer-
sity of Kentucky ministry. In addi-
tion to other professional staff, sev-
eral Navigator associates assisted in
the conference.

The fruit of the conference was
evident in such expressions as that
of a student who testified publicly,
"Through the Navigators Confer-
ence, I found a tool that has enabled
me to begin and maintain a consist-
ent devotional life, something I al-
ways wanted but never had till
now."

YEARBOOK USED AS MODEL

A sales representative of Herff-
Jones Co., yearbook publishers,
has reported to the 1977 yearbook
staff that each salesman of his com-
pany carries in his sample case a
copy of Bryan's 1976 yearbook, T/ze
Commoner, as a model to show
prospective clients. The book is
cited for the four-color cover; end-
sheets featuring the construction of
the Rudd Memorial Chapel; an im-
pressive introduction which utilized
black and white, duo-tone, and
color photographs, white tooling
lines around pictures with reverse
type on colonial red background
pages; and the use of American art
to carry out the theme "One, yet
many — many, yet one." The Bryan
yearbook is produced by a student
staff with a faculty or administrative
sponsor. Co-editors of the 1976
book were Gary Degerman and
Richard Liebig with Dr. Ruth Kant-
zer as sponsor.

FAIVHLY LIFE CONFERENCE

For the second year, the college
hosted a Moody Bible Institute
Family Life Conference in coopera-
tion with the Chattanooga Moody

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radio station, WMBW. The First
United Metiiodist Church of Day-
ton, of which Rev. Harold Buck is
pastor, and three Chattanooga
churches — two Baptist and one
Presbyterian — joined in the round-
robin conference. This year's
speakers for the meetings held Feb-
ruary 27-March 3 were Dr. J. Ver-
non McGee, of Pasadena, Calif.;
Dr. G. Allan Blair, of Charlotte,
N.C.; Rev. Craig Massey, former
pastor of Des Plaines Bible Church
and now on the MBI extension staff;
and Dr. Edgar James, a Moody fac-
ulty member.

LOVE, COURTSHIP,
MARRIAGE

Discussions on love, courtship,
and marriage dominated the two-
day conference on January 20 and
21 conducted by Dr. Robert
Nuermberger, executive director of
the Christian Counseling Service,
Inc., Chattanooga, and Dr. George
Knight, associate professor of New
Testament at Covenant Theological
Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. Presenta-
tions on the Biblical basis for build-
ing a good marriage, for evaluating
the divorce problem, and for con-
sidering the abortion issue afforded
the stimulus for discussion sessions
with the students.

Larry Efird, president of the Stu-
dent Senate, provides a student

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Larry Efird

reaction to the timely conference in
his comments which follow:

"Love? Marriage? Why do I need to
think about that? My philosophy has
always been that, when the right person
comes along, a bolt of lightning will
strike me down ! Anyway , that" s the way
it's done on television!

"According to Dr. Nuermberger and
Dr. Knight, more than a streak of light-
ning and T.V. education are necessary
in starting a Christ-centered marriage.

First of all, God will show each of us the
person He wants us to marry. The
couple must seek God's will above their
own. God has never made a mistake,
and His choice of a life partner will be
better than anyone we could possibly
dream up.

"After a person knows the one he is to
marry, love has to be developed in a
godly way. The human concept of love
is dangerously shallow, and we must
allow God to show the depth of His love
through us.

"The final step (not into the grave,
but into faith!) leads the couple to mar-
riage. The two lives involved must be-
come one to enjoy the love reladonship
God has ordained. By following the
practical rules for marriage in God's
Word, the couple will be able to experi-
ence this new life together as a dynamic
and powerful testimony for Jesus
Christ.

"My attitude now is to forget the
streak of lightning and 'Love American
Style." Dr. Nuermberger and Dr. Knight
stressed finding all the answers in God's
Word. Anyway, God's ideas have been
around much longer than ours!""

MUSIC CONCERTS

Opera came to the college cam-
pus on Tuesday evening, February
8, when the Chattanooga Opera
Company, brought its production of
Rossini's tuneful fiar^er of Seville to
Rudd Chapel auditorium. Bryan
was one of six caravan stops for the
production prior to the final produc-
tion in Chattanooga. The event was
made possible through cooperative
arrangements between the Bryan
concert series and the Rhea Crea-
tive Arts League.

Other spring concerts on the
Bryan calendar include Allison Nel-
son, concert pianist, March 24;
Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra,
March 31; and the Chattanooga
Boys' Choir, April 14.

TRUSTEE CONSULTANT

President and Mrs. Hudson
Armerding of 'Wheaton College vis-
ited the campus February 13 and 14,
when Dr. Armerding served as con-
sultant for the trustees in their in-
service training program. The ac-
tivities began with a dinner at which
Dr. Armerding addressed the trus-
tees and their wives and representa-
tives of the faculty, administration,
and students on the subject of the
place of the Christian college in to-
day's society. He also spoke to the
students at chapel; and he and Mrs.
Armerding were among special
guests at a luncheon hosted for the
trustees by President and Mrs.
Mercer at Rhea House. Mrs. Ar-
merding spoke briefly at the lunch-
eon and sang.

DRAMATIC PRODUCTIONS

The Hilltop Players presented on
February 18 and 19 their second
round of productions for the year in
two one-act plays: one, Reimer's
Ten Miles to Jericho, based on Jesus'
Parable of the Good Samaritan, and
the other. An Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge, based on Bierce's
short story with the same title. They
were performed before large and en-
thusiastic audiences in the Rudd
Chapel auditorium with its spacious
audience and stage accommoda-
tions.

The productions were directed by
Miss Rachel Ross, assistant profes-
sor of speech. In his imaginative
story of "the man who fell among
thieves," Earl Reimer describes
what took place when the priest and
the Levite were confronted by the
thieves' victim later at the inn. The

The Priest and the Levite are confronted by the wounded man at
the Inn on the Jericho Road in a scene from Ten Miles to Jericho.

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eight student actors making up the
cast were Jim Wolfe, Indianapolis,
Ind., who is also president of Hill-
top Players; Jerry Anderlik, Elma,
Iowa; Bruce Berndt, Rapid City,
S.D.; Paul Chappell, Whiting, Ind.;
Rebecca Hutchins, Dayton, Tenn.;
Anna Swartz, Lewisburg, Pa.;
David Turner, Quito. Ecuador; and
Becky Woodall, Marengo, 111.

The second drama is the story of a
Southern plantation owner in
Alabama who is hanged in the War
Between the States when he at-
tempts to sabotage a railroad held
by the Northern invaders. Produced
by student director Pam Hender-
son, Ft. Myers, Fla., the cast for
this drama included Steve Douglas,
Waverly, N.Y.; Dubbins Huggins,
Maitland, Fla.; Karen Jenkins, Et-
lan, Va.; Beth Reese, Milton, On-
tario; David Turner; and Ruth
Wood, Memphis, Tenn.

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

Larry Burkett, director of Chris-
tian Financial Concepts, Inc., De-
catur, Ga., whose articles on finan-
cial bondage and financial freedom
were featured in the two most re-
cent issues of Bryan Life, visited
the campus February 10 and 11 to
speak at chapel and to conduct
seminars for students. Mr. Burkett,
who had proved to be a popular
speaker on these topics last August
for the annual faculty retreat open-
ing the academic year, repeated this
success with students on his second
visit. The high level of student in-
terest was demonstrated by large
voluntary attendance at the night
sessions, which, according to one
observer, "looked almost like regu-
lar chapel."

A Special-Purpose Tract

A special-purpose tract entitled
"How to Explain to a Child About the
Death of a Loved Christian Parent" is
available on request either by single
copies or in quantity. Written by
Bryan trustee Miss Ruth Huston, of
Winter Park, Fla., it is based on an
experience of a close friend whose
sister died, leaving a five-year-old
child and an unsaved husband and
father. The father has since trusted
Christ and is growing spiritually. Miss
Huston handles this difficult subject
with sensitivity, warmth, and Biblical
perception.

GOSPEL MESSENGERS

Left to right are Gospel Messengers —
Brian Sclirauger, Debbie Johansen,
Nancy Bay, Gregg Wrigiit, with accom-
panist Debbie Day.

The Bryan Gospel Messengers
pictured above at rehearsal are
being booked for eleven weeks this
summer from May 15 through Au-
gust 6. Their tour, beginning in the
Carolinas, will move on into Vir-
ginia and will follow a northeast-
erly course into New Jersey until
the end of June. Heading west
through Pennsylvania and New
York, they will go into Ontario,
Canada, and across to Michigan in
July, and then will return to Tennes-
see through Illinois, Indiana, and
Kentucky.

Requests for the team may be
channeled through the Public Rela-
tions Office at the college.

EXPERIMENTAL COURSE

"Orientation to Health Care"
was the title of an experimental
six weeks' course in career explora-
tion offered at the Rhea County
Hospital by the Bryan Division of
Natural Sciences to provide expo-
sure to health care principles and
procedures. The maximum com-
plement of twelve students, both
men and women, quickly filled up
the course. Records, laboratory and
X-ray, nursing home care, dietetics,
and general floor care were the
areas covered in the on-the-job ex-

ploration. The students, by twos,
spent about three hours weekly in a
section of the hospital observing
personnel, asking questions, and
even performing some duties. Stu-
dents were also required to submit a
weekly written report on their ex-
periences; and at the end of the
course, they met with Dr. Ralph
Paisley, associate professor of biol-
ogy, to discuss their experiences
and make recommendations to im-
prove the course.

Hospital Administrator John Ec-
kert was enthusiastic about the ex-
periment also as giving college and
hospital officials an opportunity to
explore the possibilities of coopera-
tion in developing an in-service
hospital training experience for stu-
dents interested in a nursing care
program.

A TRAVEL TIP

Gatlinburg, Tennessee, gateway to
the Great Smoky Mountains, Ameri-
ca's most visited national park, offers
a new attraction in the National Bible
Museum, which visitors to the South-
east ought to be sure to see. Operated
by a former U.S. Air Force chaplain
and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lewie H.
Miller, Jr., the museum houses one of
the most unusual collections of Bi-
bles in the country. On display are
many first-edition copies of the Bible,
early volumes from 1535, 1556, and
1575, and hundreds of Bibles in
scores of languages from all over the
world. The total collection is in ex-
cess of 600 volumes, about 125 of
which are used for the displays. The
Bibles in this latter group are in more
than 100 languages and dialects and
in many unusual editions.

The Millers have traveled more
than 175,000 miles tracking down
rare or unusual Bibles and showing
the collection in colleges, churches,
religious conferences, and military
bases throughout the United States
and abroad. Their visit to the campus
here two years ago, when they
brought part of the collection, ex-
cited the kind of response which
prompts this suggestion for visitors
to the East Tennessee area.

This educational outreach is an ef-
fort to encourage Bible reading, to
serve as a reminder of the easy
availability of the Bible, and to high-
light the known desire and need for
the Bible in hundreds of additional
languages overseas. A portion of the
Museum's admission fee of $1 .25 per
person is used for the translation and
diF:;i'ibution of the Bible around the
v.-'orid.

SPRING 1977

THIRTEEN

REVIEW

After the close of the fall sports
season, national and district honors
came to four Bryan athletes — John
Shalanko, Luke Germann, and
Brian Chapman in soccer and Eric
Clarke in cross-country. Shalanko,
a senior fullback from Ecuador, and
Germann, a junior forward from
Nashville, Tenn., were named by
the National Christian College Ath-
letic Association to All-American
status for their performance in soc-
cer; and Goalie Chapman, from
Pompano, Fla., was named along
with Shalanko and Germann to the
All-Star soccer team of NCCAA
District 5, which includes most
Christian colleges in the southern
part of the United States. Clarke, a
sophomore from Miami, Fla., was
named to the NCCAA All-
American cross-country team after
his second-place finish at the Na-
tional meet in Winona Lake , Ind . , in
November.

Shalanko starred on defense
throughout the 1976 season and was
named the Most Valuable Player in
the national tournament. Earlier he
had been named to the third team
All-South soccer squad, an honor
which takes into consideration the
competition of all colleges in the
South, not just NCCAA schools.
Shalanko, Bryan's all-time most

GIRLS' BASKETBALL

The girls' basketball team closed
out its 1976-77 season by winning
the Clearwater Christian Invita-
tional Basketball tournament the
last weekend in February. Bryan
defeated Florida Bible College
81-32 in the first round, beat Clear-
water 82-42 in the semifinals, and
rallied from a 21-15 half-dme deficit
to overcome Covenant 53-34 in the
championship game.

By winning the title, the Lion-
ettes ended the year with a six-game
winning streak and brought their
season's record to 15-12. It was the
first winning season ever for wom-
en's basketball at Bryan, marking a
great improvement over last year's
5-13 mark. This record is evidence
of the continuing favorable de-
velopments in women's athletics.

frequently honored soccer player,
earlier was given all-conference
honors for the fourth consecutive
year by the Tennessee Intercol-
legiate Soccer Association.

Germann had a part in each goal
scored in the national tournament
and is the second leading point pro-
ducer in Bryan soccer history.

A WINNING SEASON

All five athletic teams at
Bryan thus far this year have
compiled winning records:
Cross Country 12-4

Soccer 6-5-3

Volleyball (women) 20-4
Basketball (women) 15-12
Basketball (men) 18-11

Chapman, Shalanko, Clarke, Germann

MEN'S BASKETBALL

The men's basketball team con-
cluded its season with a record of
18-11. The Lions finished third in
the Southern Christian Athletic
Conference tournament at Tennes-
see Temple the last weekend in Feb-
ruary, losing to Lee 78-70 in the
semifinals.

The Lions also were eliminated
from the NAIA District 24 playoffs
for the second straight season.

Christian Brothers beat Bryan 74-64
in that playoff contest.

Jerry Cline, junior, of Mansfield,
Ohio, was named Most Valuable
Player in the SCAC this season. He
was also selected to the first-team
All-Conference squad and led the
league in scoring and field-goal
shooting. Wes Johnson, sopho-
more, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was
named to the second-team All-
Conference and paced the loop in
free- throw shooting.

Left to right standing are coach Tubbs, McGiU, Madden, Burt, Spencer, DuVall,
Fuller, Williams; kneeling. Stack, Jan Hawkins, J. Crabtree, McReynolds, Branham,
and L. Crabtree with Clearwater trophies in front.

FOURTEEN

BRYAN LIFE

Retirement Investment
Supports Present Ministry

Mrs. Rebecca Van Meeveren

n today's society many people have sufficient in-
come from their current employment or other sources
to consider making a charitable gift to an institution of
their choice; however, they may not feel able to make
an outright gift, knowing that upon retirement they will
need the income generated by their capital . By the same
token they may be interested in ways of reducing cur-
rent income taxes. For Mrs. Rebecca Van Meeveren,
the deferred payment gift annuity was the answer. She
recently transferred S 10,000 from her stock portfolio to
purchase a Bryan College deferred payment gift annui-
ty. This plan is one in which the donor (before retire-
ment) simply makes a charitable gift to the chosen in-
stitution and is paid a guaranteed life income starting at
a time mutually agreed upon by both parties. Income
received from this type of annuity never varies, is regu-
lar, and leaves the investor without worries.

Mrs. Van Meeveren is completing eleven years of
service at Bryan College, where she serves as head
librarian. In 1957 she and her husband joined the Bryan
staff, Mr. Van Meeveren as associate professor of Eng-
lish and Mrs. Van Meeveren as head librarian. They
served in these capacities for five years until they left
Tennessee and took up new residence in Florida. After
Mr. Van Meeveren passed away in 1970, Mrs. Van
Meeveren returned to Bryan in the fall of 1971 as as-
sociate librarian. In that capacity she served until the
fall of 1976, when, upon the resignation of Virginia
Seguine, she assumed the position of head Hbrarian.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Van Meeveren were reared in
Christian homes in which the benefits of Christian edu-
cation were stressed. Although Mrs. Van Meeveren
hved in the shadow of one of the greatest universities of
the South, her father firmly believed that for his chil-
dren it had to be "education in a Christian college or no
college education at all." Mr. Van Meeveren was bom
and reared in a strict Dutch community in Iowa, where
religious education was stressed at a very early age. The
influence of his early training led him to matriculate at a
college sponsored by his denomination. It was while the

Van Meeverens were on the faculty of another Chris-
tian college that they met and were married. Their
daughter, also impressed by the importance of Chris-
tian education, chose to attend Wheaton College in
Illinois and is now assistant librarian of Toccoa Falls
College in Georgia.

When asked what prompted her to buy the Bryan
College deferred payment gift annuity, Mrs. Van
Meeveren stated that, working in a Christian college as
she does, she felt compelled to invest a portion of that
which the Lord had entrusted to her in the place where
she was employed. Counsel from Larry Levenger, the
college director of development, and from Larry Burk-
ett. Christian financial consultant, who was the special
speaker for the opening of school faculty retreat, also
challenged Mrs. Van Meeveren to make a current in-
vestment in God's work so that she could enjoy seeing
how it was actuaUy being used in advancing His work.
When asked her reasons for choosing Bryan College as
the recipient of such a gift, she immediately replied that
it was because of Bryan's strong spiritual emphasis, its
leadership, its high standards for students and faculty,
and the great progress she has seen take place at Bryan.
She is convinced that she has made a wise investment
for the future.

It was only after careful study in consideration of
alternate options and in light of professional counsel
that Mrs. Van Meeveren decided on the deferred pay-
ment gift annuity as the most satisfactory option for
currently investing in God's work. Having studied
other plans, she knew that, although she was very much
interested in making a charitable gift to Bryan College at
this time, she also needed assurance of having a guaran-
teed income at the time of her retirement. Also of spe-
cial interest was the sizable charitable income tax de-
duction from which she profited in purchasing the de-
ferred payment gift annuity. Making this move now
rather than after retirement has generated much greater
tax savings. One other benefit which Mrs. Van Meeve-
ren will derive after retirement is that a portion of each
guaranteed payment will be tax free. Interested in
wisely investing all of that which the Lord has commit-
ted to her care, Mrs. Van Meeveren realizes that ulti-
mately her heir will be responsible for less estate tax
and probate cost because of her provision now for the
cause of Christ.

For a free booklet on THE DEFERRED PAYMENT GIFT ANNUITY -return coupon to
QPi^^P,— Q Director of Development, Bryan College, Dayton, TN 37321

A guaranteed annual Income at retirement
or another preferred date

A portion of each payment to be tax free

No worries over investment management

The benefit of an immediate charitable
Income tax deduction

Please send the booklet. The Deferred Payment Gift Annuity.

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Volume 2

SUMMER 1977

Number 4

THE LIBERATED LION: An English professor's rationale for the
thesis that students educated in the liberal arts with a Christian
perspective have greater intellectual perception and practical
judgment than those whose education is essentially job training.
By Dr. Richard M. Cornelius

THE CANON OF THE SCRIPTURES: Second in a series of four
articles on the nature of the Scriptures, dealing with some of the
internal evidence of the Old and New Testaments which caused
these books to be recognized as authoritative. By Thomas A.
Eckel

DEDICATION OF RUDD MEMORIAL CHAPEL: A pictorial sur-
vey of the events related to the Rudd Chapel dedication with

excerpts from major speeches.

HOW BRYAN CHANGED ME AND HOW I WOULD CHANGE 10

BRYAN: The McKinney Essay winner's response to this topic. By
Gary Franklin

CAMPUS REVIEW: Notes on graduation; the faculty and staff 12

achievements, service awards, and changes; students' summer
activities; and end-of-the-year sports honors.

GIVING WHILE LIVING: A personal view of Bryan College by a 15

founder who shares her philosophy of financial support.

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Commencement is always a time of
blessing and inspiration, but it was
especially so this year. Beginning with
the dedication of the Bennett Prayer
Chapel a week before, the excitement
rose steadily to a climax at the outdoor
graduation. Adding to the usual ex-
citement was the dedication this year
of the Rudd Memorial Chapel, to-
gether with the dedication of the new
organ and the unveiling of Dr. Rudd's portrait. The campus was thronged
with special visitors, including some twenty members of the Rudd clan and
old grads, who returned for the dedication and for fellowship with Dean
Ryther and other friends of the Rudd years. Cliff Barrows in his address
called the college community to a commitment to four "new things" which
God wants of us. I hope you will take note of these four things in the brief
summary appearing on the center spread devoted to these dedication
activities.

Theodore C. Mercer

TWO

BRYAN LIFE

THE LIBERATED LION

A View of the
Christian Liberal Arts

by Richard M. Cornelius

W hy pay extra to go to Bryan when it's cheaper to
go to a state school close to my home?" "How is a
Christian liberal arts college different from a Bible insti-
tute or a secular liberal arts college? " " "What place does
liberal have in a college that calls itself evangelical
Christian?" These and similar questions are in the
minds of many — especially in a day when accountabil-
ity in education is being emphasized — and the Christian
educator should be ready to give an answer concerning
the reason for the hope of his calling.

Stated briefly, the purpose of Bryan as a Christian
liberal arts college is to glorify God in assisting students
to become mature Christians by providing them with an
education based on an integrated understanding of the
Bible and the arts and sciences. Is this merely educa-
tional jargon? Listen to these voices crying in the wil-
derness of today's technologically advanced and sup-
posedly educated society:

"Give us the educated men. We can train them our-
selves, but we cannot educate them." (Alfred P.
Sloan, honorary chairman of General Motors) "The
most difficult problems American enterprise faces
today are neither scientific nor technical in nature but
lie chiefly in what is embraced in the area of liberal
arts education." (Irving Olds, retired board chairman
of U. S. Steel)

"Instead of feeling threatened by secular concepts
with which they cannot agree, evangelical Christians
need to raise up a rationally competent generation
that is both literate in the humanities and articulate in
its beliefs." (Carl F. H. Henry, editor-at-large,C/zr«-
tianity Today)

The liberal-arts education these voices are crying for
has had a long and honorable history. In general, its
emphasis on the search for truth and the development of
the whole person has a Biblical basis. God is the author
of truth, Christ Himself is the Truth (John 14:6), and in
Him "are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowl-
edge" (Colossians 2:3). Man has been commanded to
exercise proper governance over the earth (Genesis
1:28) and to think on whatsoever things are true, hon-
est, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and
praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8). Just as ' 'Jesus increased
in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and
man" (Luke 2:52), those of us who are His followers are
to grow into mature persons "unto the measure of the
stature of the fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13). This
we accomplish by complete dedication and develop-
ment of all aspects of our being, thus obeying the two
great commandments of loving God with all our heart,
soul, mind, and strength and loving our neighbor as
ourself (Mark 12:30-31).

QUADRIVIUM (Numbers)

Richard M. Cornelius, professor of
English, has been a member of the
Bryan faculty since 1961. He was an
honor graduate of Bryan in 1955 and
earned both the M.A. and the Ph.D. de- i^^^Mf f
grees at the University of Tennessee at .HHHB^ i
Knoxville. His doctoral dissertation was entitled "Christopher
Marlowe's Use of the Bible. " During his overseas military service
after college, he traveled extensively in Western Europe. In 1976
he spent his sabbatical at Cambridge University doing independ-
ent study and writing.

In particular, the modern concept of the liberal arts
goes back to the cathedral schools of the Middle Ages,
in which theology was queen, and the other subjects
worthy of study as tools for working with ideas were
grouped into the trivium (emphasizing words): gram-
mar, rhetoric, and logic; and the quadrivium (emphasiz-
ing numbers): arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and
music. The term arts
denoted intellectual
skills, and the term
liberal meant that
these were the sub-
jects suitable for a
freeman, as opposed
to servile or mechani-
cal matters. Liberal
also had associations
with the Latin words
for free, book, and
library. trivium (words)

This idea of freedom is a key to the liberal arts. The
person who wonders, "What will a Christian liberal arts
education help me to do?" has asked the wrong ques-
tion. The important thing is what the Christian liberal
arts enables a person iobe. Jesus said, "If ye continue
in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free' '
(John 8:31-32) .Only the person who has accepted God' s
free gift of salvation by receiving Christ as his personal
Saviour is freed from the bondage of sin. Paradoxically,
when a Christian yields himself to God as His
bondslave, he gains the freedom to become all that God
intended, to make correct moral choices, and to fulfill
his responsibilities for the glory of God and the good of
his fellowmen. When such a person participates fully in
the experience of a Christian liberal arts education, he
can by God's grace also be freed from the following: (1)
the perception of native culture (thinking that American
concepts regarding methodology, material worth, and
progress are universal or the only right ones); (2) the
provinciaHsm of environment (failing to realize that
one's outlook tends to be narrowly rural or urban, in-
land New England or beach Califomian); (3) the prej-
udices of nationality, race, sex, or religion (supposing
that one's country, color, complexion, or creed are
better than others'); (4) the problems of heredity hang-
ups and the chains of sinful habits (engaging in
thoughts and actions that demoralize, degrade, and de-
stroy); (5) the perspective of time (evaluating historical
events , people , or accomplishments from solely a twen-

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tieth century point of view or from strictly a 1970"s
position); (6) the pressures of hidden philosophical pre-
suppositions (accepting, as right and proper, technol-
ogy with its crushing uniformity; materialism with its
glorification of the temporal and physical; secular
humanism with its deification of man; and evolution
with its naturalistic explanation of the total universe).

In general theory,
the Christian liberal
arts can help free a
person from the six
aspects of bondage
just mentioned by an
educational experi-
ence that — like the
dimensions of a crys-
tal cube — includes
length of knowledge
and understanding,
breadth of cultural
appreciation and crit-
ical judgment, height
of wisdom and spiritual attainment, and transparent
solidity of clear, creative communication.

In specific practice, the application of these theoreti-
cal principles has changed across the centuries and
across a particular country in any one century ; but there
is still widespread general agreement concerning many
of the aims, emphases, and essentials. The field of
English illustrates the continuity in spite of the change.
In the trivium the study of grammar involved Latin —
not the vernacular, such as English. In America it was
not until about 1875 that English grammar and composi-
tion began to eclipse classical studies. Even at that time
English literature was considered too easy or unsuitable
a course for college; so in some institutions the study of
Anglo-Saxon was required of freshmen, and the
methods used to teach the Latin classics were trans-
ferred to English. The inevitability of change is dem-
onstrated by the catalog of St. John's College,
which — of all schools today in the United States —
champions "the true meaning of the liberal arts""; but
even St. John"s allows for changes in its list of great
books and adaptations in its approach to the traditional
liberal arts. Although some curriculum change is desir-
able, one must guard against making basic changes for
purely pragmatic reasons lest he wake up some day to
find himself adrift on the sea of education, having
thrown away the rudder to lighten the boat. Such a
change occurred at Cambridge University during the
1580"s, when thecriticGabrielHarveyandtheplay Wright
Christopher Marlowe were there as tutor and student
respectively. The specter of relevance and pragmatic
education (Harvey uses both terms) knocked so insist-
ently at the gates that it was admitted. It came dressed
in the cloak of preparing men for government service,
and many students accepted this garment in exchange
for the robe of the Erasmusian type of Christian
humanism that had emphasized the classics, the Bible
in general, the Greek New Testament in particular, and
the end of learning being to know and honor Christ.
Gabriel Harvey substituted Machiavelli for such
moralistic books as More's Utopia and Plato" s Republic .

Marlowe, who had come to Cambridge to study for the
ministry, was drawn for a time into government spy
work but then used his classical and Biblical knowledge
in his plays to denounce the evils of pragmatic
humanism.

The curriculum of Bryan College reflects both the
continuity and the change in the concept of the liberal
arts. Using the college symbol of the lion as a
framework for the body of truth in general, let us con-
sider the aspects and interrelationships of the Christian
liberal arts at Bryan. Some of the groupings below are
arbitrary and are as much the result of convenience as
of intrinsic rightness. To be healthy, active, and com-
plete , a lion must have — among other things — four legs ,
a heart, a head, and a tail.

One leg of the Bryan curriculum is the area of the
Humanities. This covers the qualities and organization
of man's artistic and philosophical endeavors and is the
record of man's search for truth and beauty in his re-
sponse to the universe. Courses in this area include art,
drama, English, foreign languages, linguistics, music,
philosophy, and speech. The Humanities hold a lamp
up to the basic questions and situations of life and in so
doing illuminate ourselves, our world, and our God.

A second leg of the lion is the area of the Social
Sciences. This involves the qualities and organization
of man's associatiois and activities, whether in the
local family or in international relations. Courses in this
area include business, economics, history, and social
studies. The Social Sciences present a calendar sum-
marizing what happened yesterday, stating why we are
here today, and suggesting where we are headed tomor-
row.

Another leg of the lion is the area of the Natural
Sciences. This investigates the qualities and organiza-
tion of nature in an attempt to understand and utilize it.
Courses in this area include biology, chemistry,
mathematics, and physics. The Natural Sciences pro-
vide a descriptive and tentative map of the world
around us that we might make better headway on the
road of life.

A fourth leg of the lion is the area of the Professional.
This is concerned with the mental, emotional, and phys-
ical behavior of man in his development as an individu-
al , a member of a group , and a participant in an activity .
Courses in this area are education (including
specialized methods courses taught in the three liberal
arts areas mentioned above), physical education, and
psychology. General instruction in this area provides
students with a mirror in which to see and understand
themselves better, and advanced instruction results in a
letter of recommendation to a profession, such as edu-
cation.

The tail of the lion is the area of the General and Ex-
tracurricular. Its purpose is not to wag the body but to

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GENERAL AND
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SOCIAL SCIENCES

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aid in the balanced development of the physical, social,
and practical aspects of the individual. Activities in this
area include such experiences as banquets, ball games,
bull sessions, and the budgeting of personal finances.
The General and Extracurricular supplies a driver's
license with which to get along more easily and quickly
on our journey through life.

A lion with four strong legs and a tail is awesome to
watch as he prowls in his powerful, smoothly coordi-
nated manner. A lion limping because of a weak leg or
injured tail is a pitiful sight even though he can still get
about. It is essential, however, for a lion to have a
strong heart. In the Bryan curriculum the heart is the
Bible, and it is represented by the area of Biblical
studies, which includes courses in ancient languages,
Bible, and Christian Education. Although it is part of the
educational purpose of the college to integrate the Bible
and all fields of learning, the Word of God per se is
deserving of study , for as the college Statement of Faith
sets forth, "We believe that the holy Bible, composed
of the Old and New Testaments, is of final and supreme
authority in faith and life, and, being inspired by God, is
inerrantinthe original writings."" The Scriptures consti-
tute the compass we need to give direction in the mazes
and mists of life.

Another essential part of a lion is the head, which
commands the entire body. At Bryan this stands for the
Lordship of Jesus Christ, as seen in the college motto:
"Christ Above All." It is a primary goal of the college
that this motto will become a living reality in the life of
each member of the Bryan community. By this time
perhaps a practical-minded person is asking, "But what
about a liberal arts education as preparation for a pro-
fession or for attaining prestige, power, and plenty of
pennies?"" On the one hand, this is a truly practical
question and well deserving of an answer. Two of the
Bryan College educational objectives are: "To guide
students in developing constructive interests and skills
consistent with their abilities" and "To provide oppor-
tunity for students to concentrate on one or more sub-
jects as a foundation for graduate study or a vocation."
On the other hand, this question may really be impracti-
cal in the long-range view of things if it does not recog-
nize that successful living is more important than suc-
cessful working; that automation and cybernetics have
changed or eliminated many jobs (for instance, 40,000
elevator operators); and that it is short-sighted to train
students for their first job rather than prepare them for a
lifetime which may involve several different kinds of
jobs, the use of mushrooming leisure time, and the
diversity of family, church, and community acdvities
which are not primarily job-related. As John Milton
defined it, "a complete and generous education [is] that
which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and mag-
nanimously all the offices, both private and public, of
peace and war." Good as job-training, technology, and
the accumulation of information are, they do not go far
enough. Scandals such as Watergate, Lockheed, Gulf
Oil, and others in this country and abroad were not
problems of the hand, head, or hardware but were prob-
lems of the heart. It is situations like these that the
Christian liberal arts is designed to avoid or remedy, for
it seeks first and foremost to give attention to a person" s

character and then his career.

Let us consider an example of the practical applica-
tion of the Christian liberal arts, adapting an illustration
suggested by John H. Fisher (former executive secre-
tary and president of the Modem Language Association
and currently chairman of the Department of English at
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville).

Suppose that some people want to build a four-lane highway be-
tween a town and a city forty miles away. There are two feasible
routes: one is apparently more costly because it entails the purchase
of right-of-way land paralleling most of the old road; the other is an
entirely new route over some lowland and will involve damming up
and diverting a stream. After many discussions, petitions, and delays,
the lowland route is chosen. The dam and stream diversion floods a
pastureland, putting several dairy farms out of operation. This in turn
causes a small milk company to sell out to its competitor. When the
new road is completed, many businesses on the old road, such as gas
stations, motels, and roadside markets, begin to fold up. A mother of
five whose husband has not found work since his gas station shut
down gets angry when the sole remaining milk company in the area
raises the price of milk ten cents per gallon. She organizes a protest
march, things get out of hand, and she is accidentally shot and killed
by a policeman. A Christian businessman who had campaigned vig-
orously for the new road watches the report of the incident on TV and
says to his wife, "That's very sad, but people who demonstrate
against the law and progress must be willing to suffer the conse-
quences." Five years after the dedication of the new road, so many
commuters are using it that accidents on the forty-mile stretch have
tripled , pollution from the extra cars has caused a three per cent rise in
the incidence of emphysema and lung cancer, and a new wing on the
city hospital has to be built to take care of the additional patients. To
accommodate the additional commuters, several tree-lined blocks of
old, ornate homes in the city are leveled in order to make room for
parking lots. The state legislature calls for an increase in the sales tax,
citing as one of the reasons the increased cost in state-police patrols
and highway repairs on this and other state roads. Conservationists
are disturbed because a sub-species offish peculiar to the old stream
area can no longer be found in the new stream bed or lake.

Although no one can be expected to foresee all the
problems inherent in such a complicated construction
project, a person educated in the Christian liberal arts
should have been able to put long-range spiritual or
ethical goals before short-range materialistic gains,
think through the situation logically, evaluate the needs
of all concerned, express his opinions clearly and effec-
tively in speeches or letters, and act and vote accord-
ingly, realizing that man shall not live by new roads
alone.

Such an illustration could be multiplied many times
over with fewer or even greater complications on the
foreign mission field, in the pastoral counseling room,
and in virtually all walks of life. This is why Bryan
College as a Christian liberal arts institution seeks to
produce graduates who have adequately expanded
concepts of what is relevant, important, and worth-
while; who know both the limitations of knowledge and
the major options concerning controversial matters;
who are obedient to God and His Word; who are matur-
ing in their relationship with Jesus Christ; who are
adaptable and yet oriented to eternal verities; who are
properly motivated and creative; who are clear and
logical in thought and communication; and who are
well-integrated personalities desirous of fulfilling their
responsibility to God and man. Such individuals by
God's grace have received the free gift of salvation
through the shed blood of Christ, are experiencing the
spiritual freedom of the Spirit-filled Christian life, and
are being freed from the provincialism of time, place,
and circumstances.

SUMMER 1977

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by Thomas A. Eckel

Accepting the fact of the divine inspiration — that is,
production and preservation of the Holy Scriptures,
God's Word — as set forth in the preceding article on
"Inspiration," we come now to the question as to how
our Bible came to be comprised of its sixty-six unified
parts. By what "canon" — meaning "critical standard,
criterion, or test" — were certain books included in our
Bible and other worthy writings excluded? Could we
get along with fewer? Would more help? Do we abso-
lutely need any? Perhaps these questions are best
answered in reverse order.

We recognize that there was a time when there was
no Bible; yet there were men, such as the patriarchs,
who enjoyed a unique fellowship with God. Abraham,
for example, was the friend of God; God covenanted
with him, and Abraham interceded with God on behalf
of others — all without any written Scripture, as far as
we know, but not without communication! Here, then,
is the crux of the matter: of all that God has done or said
in relation to man, what needs to be preserved and why?

The key to both the meaning and extent of this record
which has been preserved is found, I beHeve, in Luke
24:27, 44, 45, where it is recorded that shortly before his
ascension, Christ Jesus spoke to some of his disciples;
and "beginning from Moses and from all the prophets,
he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things
concerning himself. ' ' All of the Old Testament is neces-
sary, therefore, to convey its basic purpose — the prep-
aration for the portrayal of God incarnate.

Two principles, it would seem, are vital to canonici-
ty: authority and continuity. God's words through men
and those words validated by acts, whether miracles or
fulfilled prophecy, and God's acts interpreted by words
constitute God's plenary Word. "God, who in many
portions and in various ways spoke in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken
unto us in his Son . . ." (Heb. 1:1,2). Thus, divine
authority is stated as being partial and as progress-
ing to the complete. It had to be evident that the
authority was being sustained even though persons
vested with this authority passed off the scene.

Few things are clearer in the history of Israel than the
fact of the leadership and authority of Moses. His life
and work constitute a significant part of our Bible. He is
constantly referred to by succeeding generations as a
standard. He was the leader of the nation Israel at its
birth, and the early life and experience of the people in
the desert is replete with miraculous evidence to sustain
his exclusive authority from God. Is it any wonder,
then, that his writings bear the same authority?

But are we, like the Samaritans, to receive the Pen-
tateuch and nothing more as written, divine authority?
The book of Joshua opens with the statement that, upon
the death of Moses, God spoke to Joshua, saying.

"Moses my servant is dead, now rise up. . . ."As has
been said, "God buries His workers but continues His
work." Once again the history of Israel validates the
divinely appointed authority of its leader. Perhaps it
was Joshua, the man at the center of the events of the
conquest and division of Canaan and the confidante of
Moses, who recorded in Deuteronomy, chapter 34, the
events concerning the death of Moses.

In Joshua 24:26 we are told that Joshua also wrote
words in the book of the law of God. That he did so
indicates that the written record of Joshua and Israel in
Canaan bears the same continuity to the Pentateuch as
the two persons , Moses and Joshua, did to each other as
divinely appointed leaders.

If one follows through with this procedure, it will be
quite evident that our canonical history continues in
unbroken fashion down to the return from the Babylo-
nian captivity.

Who wrote about Joshua's funeral (Joshua 24:29ff.)?
We can surmise that the compiler-author of the book of
Judges may have written of Joshua's death, as Joshua
may have written of the death of Moses. The fact that
we do not definitely know who wrote Judges does not
invalidate the book. It is very likely that Samuel figures
largely in this matter even as he did in the events of his
epoch. This great man was the last of the judges, the
estabhsher of the monarchy, and first in the prophetic
order. It is not difficult to envision him as the one to
complete the Biblical record to his own dme.

Notice how the ending of Ruth (a part of Judges in a
sense; see Ruth 1:1) reaches back to Genesis and for-
ward to David. This kind of connecting link is in keeping
with Samuel's career, which is a preparation for David,
who stands at the head of the monarchy.

After the collapse of the monarchy and the sub-
sequent captivity, Ezra, a scribe and authoritative
leader among the returned remnant, wrote of the events
of those times. Not only that, he also wrote the Chroni-
cles, which are a record of the Davidic Kingdom and
even reach back to Adam and Abraham. They are in
essential parallel with the books of the Kings. Another
vital point is that the ending (II Chron. 36:22,23) is the
same as the beginning of Ezra (1:1-3).

Of importance to be noticed here is that each writer
was conscious, under God, of adding to a progressing
revelation and of continuing divine authority. The con-
tribution of the separate prophetic books is still another
subject, but it is sufficient to say here that most of these
writings were placed in the canonical, historical record
already discussed.

It is interesting to note that some writers whose
works are considered canonical have judged at times
the works of their own contemporaries as of divine
authority also. An example from both the Old and the

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New Testaments will demonstrate. The prophet Daniel
(9:1,2) regards Jeremiah's words as from God; as a
consequence he prays and is answered by God through
an angelic emissary. Hence Daniel's words confirm that
Jeremiah indeed had spoken and written authoritative
words from God.

In the New Testament the Apostle Peter regards
Paul's writings equivalent to the Old Testament in au-
thority (II Peter 3:15,16). And Peter's own words
(found earlier in that same chapter) concerning scoffers
in the last days are considered by Jude (17,18) as au-
thoritative apostolic prediction, words spoken be-
forehand concerning a divine perspective of the future.
So we are impelled to the conclusion that "canonical"
is virtually equivalent to prophetic or apostolic.

Add to this the continual, voluminous use of the Old
Testament by the New Testament writers. Matthew,
the first writer in order in our English Bible, opens by
connecting Jesus Christ to David and Abraham. Then
he directly connects the life and work of Jesus as Mes-
siah to the prophet Isaiah (40:3) and his messianic out-
line by introducing John the Baptist as both fulfiller and
forerunner." Later in his Gospel (17:11-13), as he re-
lates Jesus' own claim for John as the Elijah who was
promised in the closing statement of Malachi, Matthew
thereby connects his word and ministry to the already
received last canonical writing of the Old Testament.

We pointed out earlier that the key to the canon is to
be found in the writings of the Old Testament because
they speak of Christ. Now that we have reached the
portrayal of that Person in the Gospels, where else is
there to go? It is precisely here that apostolic authority
extends the picture.

In the Gospel of John (17:8), Jesus says to the Father,
"I have given them the words which Thou gavest me."
A little earlier (14:26) He promised them that the Holy
Spirit would teach them all things and bring all things to
their remembrance — that is, what Jesus had said to
them. Soon after, Jesus says (16:12ff.), "I have yet
many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them
now. But when the Spirit of truth is come. He will guide
you into all truth. . . . He shall glorify me." In so speak-
ing to the apostles, Jesus made clear that the writings
produced through them would be authoritative or ca-
nonical, reflecting back to and forward from the person
and work of Christ.

That such a standard should be fixed and final was
understood at least by the Apostle Paul, for in II
Timothy 2:2 he exhorts that what he has said is to be
committed to faithful men for them to teach to others.
The early Church Fathers recognized this principle of
apostolic authority and did not add their own writings to
those apostolic books and letters which came to be
recognized as Scripture.

Thomas A. Eckel was assistant profes-
sor of Bible and French at Bryan from
1961-69. After seven years as headmaster
of Charlotte (N.C.) Christian School, he is
planning to enter the ministry under the
Presbyterian Church U.S. He holds the
bachelor's and master's degrees from
Wheaton (III.) College.

This article on the canon of Scripture
was originally given in 1963 as one in a
series of four chapel messages by Bryan
faculty members on the inspiration of the
Bible, the canon of Scripture, and the text
of the Old and New Testaments. These
messages, later printed in booklet form,
are now being reprinted in the four 1977
issues of this magazine.

Other examples of Paul's consciousness that God
was speaking authoritatively through him are found in
II Thessalonians 3:14,17: "If any man obey not our
word by this epistle . . . have no company with him."
He then distinguishes his letters from those of any other
author by a certain epistolary closing. Again, in I
Corinthians 14:37, Paul states: "If any man thinks him-
self to be . . . spiritual, let him acknowledge that the
things that I write unto you are the commandments of
the Lord."

The Apocalypse, the last book of the canon, con-
cludes with a solemn warning concerning anyone who
adds or detracts from what is written therein, for the
obvious reason that there is nothing to be added to the
final revelation. Jesus Christ is presented as the Culmi-
nation, the Lord of Heaven, and the Sovereign of earth
and history.

During the early centuries A.D.. both the persecu-
tions which the Christians experienced and the heresies
which multiplied, contributed to an active preservation
of the writings regarded by the Church as authoritative
(apostolic).

Therefore by the fourth century the canon stands as
we now have it, every book and letter having been
subjected to the test of time and perishability, under the
providential preservation of God, who acts and speaks
in the Person of His Son, Jesus Christ.

SUMMER 1977

SEVEN

April 23

Dedication of Bennett
Prayer Chapel

April 30

Dedication of Baldwin
l\/lulti-Waveform Organ

Dr. Don Hustad
Louisville, Ky.

May 1
Alumni Buffet Supper

Above, Mr. Ryther receives a
plaque from Allen Jewett '52, in rec-
ognition of 26 years of service at
Bryan.

At left are Mrs. Lloyd Fish, Winona
Lalte, Ind., and Dwight W. Ryther,
DeLand, Fla., standing, who were
longtime staff associates of Dr. Rudd,
with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Purser, Day-
ton, seated, who were students in the
thirties.

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RUDD MEI

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bennett
Sebring, Ohio

by D. W. Rytlier

"Back in the days when tuition at Bryai
$25 a quarter, students sometimes paid theii
on the hoof, in the bag, or by the jug. A cow,
sweet potatoes, or sorghum molasses wer
quently substitutes for cash.

"It was during such times that I came t
preciate and to love the man whom we i
today — Judson A. Rudd. Of all the men I
known over the past forty-five years, I have i
met one more consistently Christlike in his
walk than was Dr. Rudd.

"Dr. Rudd was a dedicated man — dedica
his family, dedicated to his church, dedicat
his college.

(This tribute was excerpted from th
speech given by Dean Ryther, who was
special guest of honor at the dedicatio
because of his long association with D
Rudd.)

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BRYAN LIFE

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Unveiling of Rudd Portrait

r. Rudd was determined. He not only would
jt he could not give up.
r. Rudd believed God — and the impossible
ccomplished. He knew that a faithful Father
to honor the requests of a faith-filled child.
believe Bryan College stands here today as
suit of the efforts of many faithful men and
:n, students, faculty, and staff. But I also
'e most sincerely that the college is the prod-
asically, of God's use of the dedication, the
nination, and the faith of Judson A. Rudd.
a testimony, what a challenge he has left us,
ow fitting a memorial to such a man is this
iful Rudd Memorial Chapel!"

Dr. Mercer leads service of dedication as
Mrs. Rudd, Mary Frances, and Aunt Lettie
Archer stand beside tlie pulpit.

Cliff Barrows, dedication speaker

DEDICATION ADDRESS

Cliff Barrows based his address for the dedication of Rudd
Chapel on Isaiah 43:18, 19: "Remember not the former things,
neither consider the things of old. Behold I will do a new thing; now
it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in
the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."

He said, "The dedication of this chapel will not get any farther
than this service this evening unless you and I as concerned indi-
viduals are willing to say, 'Lord, renew my own dedication." God
says, 'Don't remember the former things; behold I will do a new
thing.' " Mr. Barrows then proceeded to suggest four "new
things" God wants of us:

1. A new dedication to the task before us based on conviction
and confidence in His word

2. A new personal discipline in our lives

3. A new daring in our faith

4. A new demonstradon of God's power

Rudd family members attending the dedication are pictured in back row,
left to right: J. T. EUiott***, Eugene Stifel, Mrs. Stifel***, Ralph Rudd*,
Herbert Rudd*, Mary Frances Rudd, Harold Rudd*, Mrs. Samuel Rudd,
Samuel Rudd*, Mrs. Douglas Pringle (Ruhe Rudd)**; front row, Mrs. J. T.
Elliott, Mrs. LaVerne Donovan**, Mrs. Lewis Coppoc*, Mrs. Judson
Rudd, Mrs. Herbert Rudd, Dr. Lettie Archer (aunt of Dr. Rudd), and Mrs.

Harold Rudd. * "rst cousins of Dr. Rudd

** second cousins of Dr. Rudd
♦•• cousins of Mrs. Rudd

SUMMER 1977

NINE

vl\

Gary Franklin

McKinney
Essay Contest

Beginning in 1970, Dr. J. Wesley
McKinney of Memphis, chairman of
the board of trustees, instituted a
writing competition in which
graduating seniors were invited to
submit essays on the topic of "How
Bryan College Has Changed Me and
How I Would Change Bryan Col-
lege." Dr. McKinney selects the
winning essay, and the cash prize of
$100 is presented at graduation.
The entries are processed anony-
mously so that the identities of the
writers are not known until after the
winning selection has been made.
On request ofthe writers, the essays
may double as entries in the com-
petition for student commence-
ment speakers. Three such essays
were chosen, also anonymously, for
commencement addresses in lieu
of an outside speaker this year.

This year's winning entry in the
McKinney competition, by Gary
Franklin of Westland, Michigan, a
history major, is reprinted here. The
process of shortening the essay
necessary for its use in this
magazine has not changed the con-
tent or the substantive style of the
original.

L he choice of a college is impor-
tant because the college experience
has an impact upon the total
person — socially and spiritually, as
well as academically. As I examine
those areas in which Bryan College
has most clearly changed my life, I
find that there have been major
changes in my attitudes toward my-

How Bryan
Changed M

self, toward others, and toward
God.

When I came to Bryan as a
freshman, I arrived with many
hopes and expectations^ Naturally I
had a strong desire to please my
parents, but my primary goal was to
mature and develop into the indi-
vidual God would have me to be.
Looking back now as a senior, I can
see God's working in my life to
bring me closer to the person He
would have me to be, and yet it is
not possible to put into words all the
lessons He has taught me. How-
ever, three particular lessons do
stand out in my mind. The family-
like environment of Bryan College,
where I was in continuous contact
with over five hundred other stu-
dents, provided me with the oppor-
tunity to make progress in interper-
sonal relationships. I learned that it
was necessary for me to be com-
pletely open and honest in all my
dealings with people. I discovered
that if I was not honest and open,
the inevitable result was damage to
other individuals, great hurt to my-
self, sometimes even to the loss of a
friend.

In my sophomore and junior
years when I became involved in
student leadership, I learned that
the key to becoming a respected
leader was first of all to be a self-
sacrificing servant. Only when I
was willing to sacrifice my personal
ambitions for the sake of the other
individuals would my efforts be
worthwhile and meaningful.

Finally , as I began my senior year
with all the fears of graduation and
the anticipation of establishing my-
self in the world, I learned what I
feel has been the most valuable of
my lessons concerning myself. As I
looked back at the various conflicts
I had been through with different
individuals, 1 realized that I had
learned the most from those indi-

viduals as a direct result of these
conflicts. The Lord had used these
situations to make me discover the
principle that there is much wisdom
to be found in experience, that
knowledge alone is not enough,
without the proper balance between
knowledge and experience.

My years at Bryan have also been
very profitable because during them
my attitudes toward others have
changed. I began to see how selfish I
had been in my relationship to
others in that I had failed to see that
other individuals were important
and consequently that their needs
were important. Becoming more
aware ofthe needs of people helped
me to realize the necessity of totally
accepting another individual for
what he or she is, rather than trying
to change that individual into some-
one I would hke him to be.

However, the most important
area of development in my years at
Bryan has taken place in my rela-
tionship with and attitude toward
God. He has taught me two very
distinct lessons. First of all, I am to
love Him with all my heart, soul,
and mind. As I present myself to
Him, He desires my entire being,
personality, and character; any-
thing short of this total commitment
is a sign of an incomplete love on my
part. Too often I found myself ^ow^
different things with the hope that
my service in itself would draw me
closer to God. Yet this led only to a
great deal of frustration, because I
was not maturing spiritually and my
efforts were meaningless and often
fruitless. Through this frustration
God has shown me that His primary
desire is not that I serve Him, but
rather that I love Him. As my
heart's desire becomes to love and
know Him in a deeper way, only
then will my service be acceptable
to God and further my spiritual
growth. And as I come to know Him

TEN

BRYAN LIFE

nd How I Would

Change Bryan

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Graduates receive diplomas in outdoor
ceremony.

more intimately, the fruit of the
Spirit will naturally manifest itself
without the self-effort that I so often
felt was necessary.

The second lesson that I have
learned about God is that He pro-
\ides for His children: my years at
Bryan stand as a testimony to His
gracious provision. Throughout my
college years, it has been a struggle
for my parents and me to finance my
education at Bryan, a fact which
often led me to worry and to become
discouraged. It is clear that God has
allowed me to experience this to
bring about a greater dependence on
Him through a complete recognition
of my inadequacy. It was in the
times of my greatest discourage-
ment that I would finally turn to
God. The promise that I claimed
and God proved to be true is found
in Matthew 6:33-34a: ""But seek
first His kingdom and His right-
eousness and all these things shall
be added to you. Therefore do not
be an.xious for tomorrow. . . .""
Only after I turned to God and
claimed His promise did the dis-
couragement leave and a restful
peace flood my heart. Having
grasped the truth of this promise. I
can press on towards maturing in
this life with the confidence that
God is going to bring all things into
my life that are necessary to make
me into the individual He desires me
to be.

Along with the love I feel for
Bryan. I also feel a great desire to
see Bryan consistently improve in
quality. In discussing how I would
change Bryan College. I shall make
a recommendation that is primarily
academic in nature. If implemented.
I feel that it would have very posi-
tive results both socially and
spiritually. The purpose of a Chris-
tian liberal arts college is to provide
a beUever with the highest possible
standard of education taught with a
Christian perspective. Our faculty
members are hindered in reaching
this objective because they are
overloaded in their teaching re-
sponsibilities, a fact which causes
frustration on their part and inhibits
the educational potential of the stu-
dent. Having so much responsibility
in teaching, the faculty member is
limited in his preparation and in the
quality of material he is able to offer
the student. From the standpoint of
the student, it is depriving him of the
quality of education to which he is
entitled. This is not to imply that
Bryan has inferior quality of educa-
tion, but rather that as Christians we
should be constantly striving to im-
prove our quality. One of the dis-
tinctives of Bryan College has been
that it has maintained a low
faculty-student ratio: but as this
ratio begins to change with our in-
creased number of students, so does
the uniqueness of the education at
Bryan. Keeping in mind the purpose
of a Christian liberal arts education.
I see a need for faculty expansion to
meet the growing academic needs at
Bryan. This is essential because
only when Bryan increases its qual-
ity of education will it be able to
expand its spiritual and social im-
pact. The hiring of additional fac-
ulty members would obviously re-
sult in a higher quality of education,
because faculty members would
have more time to develop and ex-

pand their area of specialization. As
a result, the student would have the
opportunity to take advantage of a
greater depth of specialization. A
relaxation of academic responsibil-
ity on the part of the professor
would also result in the increased
amount of time he could devote to
individual students and their par-
ticular problem areas. It has been
my experience that the classes I
have had with fewer class members
have been my most profitable ones
because I was able to take advan-
tage to a greater degree of my
teachers" knowledge. An improve-
ment in quality in this area would
result in a Bryan student's being
better equipped to compete in our
world. Furthermore, this increased
quality of teaching from a Christian
perspective would enable the stu-
dent more clearly to understand and
to deal with the philosophical trends
and attitudes of this world from a
Biblical viewpoint.

In conclusion, after reflecting
upon my four years at Bryan. I see
them as having been very profitable
socially, spiritually, as well as
academically. Through the various
experiences I have encountered, it
becomes very clear that God has
used Bryan College to mature me
into an individual who is now better
equipped to deal with the realities of
this world.

Three coeds — Gloria Price, Rhonda
Jacl<son, and Debbie Johansen — smile
their farewells.

SUMMER 1977

ELEVEN

CAMPUS
REVIEW

FACULTY NOTES

► WUliam L. Ketchersid, as-
sociate professor of history, was
awarded the Ph.D. in history on
June 10 by the University of Geor-
i gia. The title
of his disserta-
tion was "The
Maturing of
the Presidency,
1877-1899."

Dr. Ketcher-
sid earned his
B.A. in history
from Tennessee
WiUiam Ketchersid Wesleyan Col-
lege and the M.A. from the Univer-
sity of Tennessee in Knoxville. He
taught at Bryan from 1966-69, left to
attend graduate school, and re-
turned to the faculty in 1973.

Chairman of the Faculty De-
velopment Council for 1974-75, Dr.
Ketchersid was trained by the
Council for the Advancement of
Small Colleges in 1975-76 as an on-
campus consultant in faculty de-
velopment. He was faculty chair-
man in 1974-75 and has been elected
vice chairman for 1977-78.

Dr. Mayme Bedford and
Mrs. Laurel Wells

^ Shown above, left, is, Dr.
Mayme Bedford, student aid officer
and dean of counseling services,
who was honored recently at the
annual meeting of the Tennessee
Association of Student Financial
Aid Administrators. Dr. Bedford

has been a member of TASFAA
since 1968, when she became stu-
dent aid officer at Bryan. Presenting
the award, right, is Mrs. Laurel
Wells, Collegedale, president of the
statewide organization.

► Dr. Merlin Grieser, assistant
professor of chemistry, was hon-
ored by his three senior majors with
a plaque on Honors Day in appreci-
ation of his work in re-establishing
the chemistry major at Bryan.

SERVICE AWARDS

The following persons were
awarded citations of merit for years
of service at the annual Honors Day
ceremonies:

20 YEARS
Miss Zelpha Russell

Director of Admissions
(Also awarded a $ 1 ,000 bond
from the trustees at com-
mencement)

10 YEARS
Vern A. Archer

Treasurer
E. Walter Seera

Director of Student Recruit-
ment

5 YEARS

Dr. Robert P. Jenkins

Professor of Business and

Economics
Dr. Brian C. Richardson

Associate Professor of Chris-
tian Education
John G. Reeser

Assistant Professor of Physical

Education and Head Soccer

Coach
Charles H. Robinson

Assistant Director of Public

Relations
Miss Rachel J. Ross

Assistant Professor of Speech
Earl Walker

Maintenance Mechanic

SPECIAL CITATION

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Wooten

(For outstanding service as new
employees)

Mr. Wooten — Supervisor of
Janitorial Service

Mrs. Wooten (Brenda) — Sec-
retary in Administrative Sup-
port Services

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Shown above is Mrs. Harry C.
Johnson of Athens, Tenn., who was

named Mother of the Year by the
Chamber of Commerce of that city.
Mr. Johnson, right, served as an ac-
tive trustee of the college from
1949-67. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson con-
tinue their active interest and in-
volvement in the affairs of the col-
lege. Their granddaughter Dorothy
is a member of the rising senior
class. A highlight of the year is the
annual retreat for faculty and ad-
ministration held at the Johnson's
cabin on Watts Bar Lake.

FACULTY AND STAFF
FAREWELLS

Formal farewells were said dur-
ing faculty workshop to a number of
faculty and staff personnel, who, for
various reasons, are leaving the col-
lege to pursue their careers in other
places and other ways.

Dr. Tom Biller, assistant profes-
sor of psychology since 1973, is
leaving to enter the private practice
of clinical psychology.

Mr. Martin Collins '73, who was
under annual contract as instructor
in accounting, is a native Rhea
Countian and plans to continue his
teaching career in the public schools
of the local area.

Mrs. Grace Ely '75 has left with
her husband, Fred '74, who will be
working in the home office of the
Sudan Interior Mission, Cedar
Grove, N.J. Mrs. Ely's two years of
service with the college were in the
Records Office as assistant registrar
and teacher certification counselor.

Dr. J. James Greasby, who re-
signed after nine years as professor
of music, will be giving his time to
private teaching, serving as church
organist, and "getting in some prac-
tice."

TWELVE

BRYAN LIFE

Mrs. Madelyn Hansen, the college
nurse for the second semester, goes
with her husband, Glenn "77, who is
in a ministry as church director of
education and youth in Dixon, 111.
Mr. Howard Hutchins has retired
after two years as college security
officer; and Mr. Tom McManus '74,
supervisor of grounds, has been ac-
cepted for graduate study in history
at East Tennessee State University.
Mr. Larry Puckett '73, admis-
sions counselor for four years, and
his wife, Patty (Baker) '75, are mov-
ing to Memphis, where he has been
accepted at Memphis State Univer-
sity law school.

Miss Miriam Sailers '71, instruc-
tor in education and psychology
since 1974 and head resident of Hus-
ton Hall last year, will begin work
toward her doctorate in psychology
at Rosemead, Calif. Mr. Jerry
Sawyer, assistant professor of Eng-
lish since 1972, whose contract was
not renewed, indicated that he plans
to complete his doctorate.

Mr. Frank Schmickl retired as
part-time maintenance mechanic;
and Mrs. Helen Stanileld, secretary
in support services, is going with
her husband, Larry '77, who will be
on the faculty of Lakeland Christian
School in Florida.

Miss Susan Waddell '74, head res-
ident of Maranatha last year, left to
be married in June; and Mr. Lynn
Wheeler '75, director for two years
of Practical Christian Involvement,
moved from the area to engage in a
local church ministry.

Mr. David Wolfe '73, a one-year
replacement as instructor in
mathematics, will undertake a doc-
toral study at University of Tennes-
see in Knoxville.

Miss Virginia Seguine, director of
library services since 1964, has re-
signed her position to pursue a
ministry with the Campbell-Reese
evangelistic team of Milton, On-
tario. She was
on leave of ab-
sence this past
year to explore
this ministry. At
graduation a ci-
tation of merit
along with a
check of ap-
preciation was
Virginia Seguine presented to

Miss Seguine. Mrs. Rebecca Van

Meeveren, assistant director of li-
brary services, who served as acting
director this past year, now as-
sumes this head responsibility on a
permanent basis.

FAMILY LINKS IN THE CLASS

OF '77

The Class of 1977, numbering
113, represented twenty-eight
states and five foreign countries.
Included in the graduating class
were three married couples and
twenty other married students;
twenty-three with brothers or sis-
ters who attended, or now attend,
Bryan; five children of alumni; five
children of faculty and staff; four
sons and daughters of missionaries;
two brother-sister pairs; and one the
son of a trustee. Individual pictures
of the seniors are appearing in the
summer issue of the alumni
magazine, Bryanette, where com-
mencement honors are printed also.

The following parents were rec-
ognized at the graduation cere-
monies for the number in their fam-
ily who have attended and been
graduated from Bryan, with each
family represented in the 1977 class:

Mr. and Mrs. R. Don Efird, Kan-
napolis, N. C, whose son Larry is
the third of four sons to attend and
the second to be graduated;

Rev. and Mrs. Allen B. Jewett,
Henderson ville, N.C., whose son
Douglas is the third graduate in his
family of whom four have attended
Bryan, the father also being an
alumnus;

Dr. and Mrs. Carey Johansen,
Richmond, Va., whose daughter
Debbie is the fourth in her family to
attend Bryan and the third to be
graduated ;

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Porcella,
Miami Springs, Fla., whose son
Glenn is the third of three sons to be
graduated ;

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Steele, Dayton,
whose son John was the fourth in
that family to be graduated, with a
fifth now enrolled (Mrs. Steele is a
member of the college staff);

Mrs. Dean F. Triplett, St.
Petersburg, Fla., whose daughter
Kathy was the third daughter of that
family to be graduated (Mr. Triplett
died last winter; Mrs. Triplett was
unable to be present but was rep-
resented by Kathy);

Dr. and Mrs. Glen Turner,

Ecuador, whose son and daughter,
David and Esther, make three of
that family to be graduated (Dr.
Turner traveled the farthest to at-
tend graduation; understandably
Mrs. Turner was unable to attend);

Professor and Mrs. Alan Winkler,
Dayton, whose daughter Connie
was the second daughter to be
graduated, with Mr. Winkler him-
self being a graduate (Mr. Winkler is
assistant professor of Bible on the
college faculty);

Rev. and Mrs. Gene Witzky, Ft.
Wayne, Ind., both of whom are
graduates of the college in the Class
of ' 5 1 and whose daughter Joy was a
member of the Class of '77.

Bene Hammel delights the commence-
ment audience with his recital on the new
organ.

ATHLETIC BANQUET AWARDS

A grateful college community
applauded again and again as Bryan
athletes were honored during the
annual athletic awards banquet on
April 22. The honors listed here
have not been previously reported
in Bryan Life.

Basketball ace Jerry Cline and
record-setting Eric Clarke were
named co-athletes of the year.
Cline, a junior from Mansfield,
Ohio, who garnered the MVP and
best rebounder awards , led the team

Jerry Cline Eric Clarke

in nearly every category and won
selection to many all-star teams.
Clarke, a sophomore from Miami,

SUMMER 1977

THIRTEEN

Fla., broke Bryan's course record,
made several all-star squads, and
was chosen cross-country MVP.
Most improved runner award went
to Bruce Berndt of Rapid City, S.D.

Soccer Coach John Reeser pre-
sented the best offensive player
award to Luke Germann, Nashville,
and best defensive player prize to
John Shalanko, Quito, Ecuador.
Awards for best hustle went to
Charhe Goodman of Athens, Ala.,
and for most improved to Rocky
DaCosta of Bermuda.

Tennis coach John Reeser
awarded letters to his entire team:
Paul Combs, Mark Combs, Dan
Dark, David Sligh, Dan Allen, Bob
Jensen, and Mark Poole. Paul
Combs, Franklin, Ohio, who was
also student assistant coach for both
men and women, earned the MVP
honor; and Dan Allen, Atlanta, Ga.,
was most improved. The season
record was seven wins and five
losses.

In baseball Brian Chapman,
Pompano, Fla., took best offensive
honors; Jim Johnson, Miami, Fla.,
was best defensive; and Chapman
shared MVP with Dennis Metzger,
Dayton. The team posted a season
record of 12 wins, 14 losses.

In women's sports Louise Burt,
junior of Lima, Peru, was named
woman athlete of the year for her
performance in basketball and vol-
leyball. Loretta Spencer, Asheville,
N.C., was named MVP in basket-
ball for the third straight year and
top rebounder this year. Sandy
Stack, Hollywood, Fla., was most
improved and also received cita-
tions as leading scorer and for best
free-throw percentage. The wom-
en's tennis club had a 4-1 season.
Louise Burt

MESSENGERS ON TOUR

The Bryan Gospel Messengers
are traveling in the Northeast and
Midwest on a twelve-week schedule
which began on May 15. Their
itinerary as completed at press time
is shown from June 13.

Mon.-Sat., June 13-18
VIRGINIA CBM CAMP
Woodstock, VA

Sat.. June 18, 7:30 p.m.
FAITH CHAPEL
Hurlock, MD

Sun.. June 19, 11:00 a.m.
GRACE BIBLE CHURCH
Seabrook, MD

Sun., June 19, 7:00 p.m.
CALVARY BIBLE CHURCH

Lusby, MD

Wed., June 22

BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH

Wilmington, DE

Thurs., June 23. 7:00 p.m.
EMMANUEL CONG. CHURCH
Egg Harbor City. N.J.

Sat.. June 25, 7:30 p.m.
GRACE BIBLE CHURCH
Pompton Plains, N.J.

Sun.. June 26. 7:00 p.m.

PARK BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH

Pennsville, N.J.

Tues.. June 28, 7:00 p.m.
DALLAS COMMUNITY CHURCH
Dallas. PA

Wed., June 29, 7:00 p.m.
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH
Montoursville, PA

Thur., June 30, 7:30 p.m.
NORTH WAVERLY CHAPEL
Waverly, N.Y.

Fri., July 1, 6:30 p.m.

STOCKTON COMMUNITY CHURCH

Stockton, N.Y.

Sat., July 2, 7:30 p.m. and
Sun.. July 3. 11:00 a.m.
WEST PARK BAPTIST CHURCH
London, Ontario

Sun., July 3, 7:00 p.m.
EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH
Milton. Ontano

Tues.. July 5. 7:30 p.m.
LOTT BAPTIST CHURCH
Glennie, MI

Wed., July 6, 7:00 p.m.
INDEPENDENT BIBLE CHURCH
Cadillac, MI

Fri. and Sat., July 8-9

GULL LAKE BIBLE CONFERENCE

Hickory Comers, MI

Sun,. July 10, 9:30. 10:30 a.m.
SIMONt'oN lake BAPTIST CHURCH
Elkhart. IN

Sun., July 10. 5:45 p.m.
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH
Holland, MI

Mon. and Tues., July 11-12

GULL LAKE BIBLE CONFERENCE

Hickory Corners, MI

Wed.. July 13, 7:30 p.m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Eaton Rapids, MI

Fri., July 15, 7:30 p.m.
PALATINE BIBLE CHURCH
Palatine, IL

Sun.. July 17, 9:15 & 10:45 a.m.

SHAWS & ST. JAMES EVANG. CHURCH

Dixon, IL

Sun. and Men., July 17-18, 7:00 p.m.
BETHEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH & CAMP
Dixon, IL

Wed., July 20, 7:30 p.m.
BEREAN BIBLE CHURCH
Columbus, IN

Fri., July 22, 7:30 p.m.
GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH
Fort Wayne, IN

Sun., July 24, 7:00 p.m.
CAMBRIDGE BIBLE CHURCH
Cambridge, OH

Mon.. July 25, 7:00 p.m.
BETHEL BIBLE CHURCH
Hendricks. KY

Tues., July 26

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Salyersville, KY

Wed.. July 27, 7:00 p.m.
OAKRIDGE BIBLE CHURCH
Charleston, WV

Fri. -Fri., July 29-Aug. 5

HICKORY GROVE BAPTIST CAMP

(Charlotte, NC)
Near Virginia border

The Bryan Gospel Messengers shown
above are (standing, left to right) Nancy
Bay, Columbus, Ind.; Brian Schrauger,
Eaton Rapids, Mich.; Debbie Day, Co-
lumbus, Ind.; (in front) Gregg Wright,
Foraker, Ky.; and Debbie Johansen,
Richmond, Va.

FOURTEEN

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BRYAN LIFE

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ABOUT MRS. ARNOLD—

Mrs. E. B. Arnold, who will be 86
years of age in July, is one of the
three founders of Bryan College still
living. She and her late husband, a
Baptist minister who died in 1948,
were involved in Bryan affairs from
the days of the Bryan Memorial As-
sociation of 1925-30 and then in the
college from its opening in 1930.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Arnold served
long tenures as active trustees, each
serving as secretary of the board for
a number of years. Mrs. Arnold op-
erated a women's department store
in Dayton for sixty years, at one
time having satellite stores in three
other East Tennessee locations.
Her Sunday school class at First
Baptist Church, which she taught
for more than fifty years, included
numerous Bryan students in the ear-
lier years.

Though a trustee emeritus since
1970, Mrs. Arnold has maintained
such active interest in the college
that she has been supportive of es-
sentially every project. For a
number of years she has endowed
an award for the Student Teacher of
the Year, a fact which reflects her
own teaching experience as a young
woman just out of Western Ken-
tucky State Teachers College. It
was as a young teacher in London,
Ky., that she first met her future
husband, then a college student
from Pennsylvania.

Frequently present at com-
mencement and other major events
of the college, Mrs. Arnold was
called to the platform on graduation
day, May 2, and presented to the
commencement audience in recog-
nition of her long life and service to
the college. The accompanying arti-
cle, based on an interview by
Charles Robinson, presents Mrs.
Arnold's philosophy of stewardship
and her reminiscences about her
Bryan experiences.

- ;,.ER GLORY OF GOD

,. GRATEFUL APPf^So

THIS DORMITORY IS NAMED

ARNOLD HALL

BUT THE PATH OF THE JUST IS AS THE
,0 LIGHT THAT SHINETH MORE AND MORE
-HE PERFECT DAV/' PROVERBS 4: IP

OEDICATED MAY 22. 1972

:OLLEGE DAYTON, TENN.

GIVING WHILE LIVING

"I'm going to give to Bryan as
long as I live."

Mrs. E. B. Arnold was speaking
during a recent interview. "I never
gave anything I didn't want to," she
continued, "or which wasn't
needed or couldn't be used."

Reminiscing about the days of
struggle during Bryan's beginnings,
she recalled times when there was
need of as little as $25 or $50.
"Some of us would just go out and
gather it up. If $50 was needed, they
just told us. Often the teachers were
paid with 'due bills,' which were is-
sued by the college and honored by
the local merchants."

"On that hot, sad July Sunday in
1925," she reflected, "when we
knew the Scopes trial was finished
and the great champion of the Bible
had gone to his reward, we could
not have realized what the Lord
would bring forth in our communi-
ty. A few men had been with Mr.
Bryan when he went up on the hill
and looked across the valley with its
beautiful view. He remarked what a
wonderful location it would make
for a school for the youth of the
area. Discussion continued after his
death, and eventually the decision
was reached to establish a coeduca-
tional Christian college. A group of
five or six men put up enough
money to buy the land."

"As we stand today on Bryan hill,
we see the modern dormitories, the

beautiful and stately administration
building, and the other excellent
facilities. Then when the multipur-
pose Rudd Memorial Chapel was
recently dedicated, we could not
but ask ourselves, 'How can these
things be?' The obvious reply to the
quesfion is that it is God's answer to
the need of students who want to
learn more about His Word and
will."

Mrs. Arnold finds great satisfac-
tion in knowing that one of the re-
sults of her giving to Bryan has been
that many Bryan students teach in
Dayton and Rhea County schools.

"I feel that our county schools
are outstanding because of the
many teachers who have attended
Bryan. My own life has been en-
riched by the college, and I know
that many families have been
blessed. I only wish that more
people could get closer to Bryan and
be blessed as I have been," she
said.

"As I look over today's situation,
I know that any investment I may
have made in money or service to
Bryan College has paid the highest
dividend possible in this world. The
college has carried on God's work
and I trust it will condnue till the
Lord comes. I have a motto which
sums up how I feel about giving:
"I'm givin' while I'm livin'.
So I'm knowin' where it's
goin'."

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FRONT COVER

C^aptain" Martin Hartzell is commander of the
Bryan College "navy." The "fleet" consists of one
20-foot pontoon boat, a recent acquisition of the biology
department. Biology majors use the boat under Captain
Hartzell's direction to ply the nearby Tennessee River
to research the river's ecology. It is also used for in-
struction in the ecology course offered to all biology
majors. Plans are now in process for sharing ecological
findings with TVA as part of its environmental monitor-
ing program. Mr. Hartzell, assistant professor of biol-
ogy, has expressed the hope that the Bowaters Paper
Company will become interested in a student project for
studying water run-off and aquatic nutrients. The boat
has a capacity of from ten to twelve persons and is
equipped with life jackets and all other recommended
safety devices. The aluminum duracraft vessel is pow-
ered by a 55-horsepower Chrysler motor.

Mr. Hartzell' s enthusiasm for his new teaching tool is
the practical outworking of the philosophy and purpose
of the college to assist the students in their personal

growth and development by providing opportunities to
understand the relationship of the Bible to the arts and
sciences through learning to think critically, to work
independently, to communicate clearly, and to apply
their learning creatively.

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The front cover photo was taken in the Richland EmbaVment o"f Chick-
amauga Lake near the campus with Mr. Hartzell and three
students — Mike Mosley, Gary, Ind.; Susan Quarles, Port St. Joe, Fla.:
and Tony McBride, Elma, Iowa.

BACK COVER

The back cover photo is a panoramic view of the Tennessee Valley
from Buzzard's Point on the Cumberland Escarpment about three
miles northwest of Dayton.

Both cover photos are by Larry Levenger^.^s-..-.^

DITOFRI/VL^

This special-purpose issue
is designed for prospective:
students and their families to
explore the opportunities for a
Christian education at Bryan. The aim has been to
convey information and impressions about the basic
features of the educational philosophy and religious
commitment of the college, the scope and spirit of the
academic program, and something of the range of ex-
tracurricular activities. And it was decided that a pres-
entation in which people and their reactions are fea-
tured was preferable to a more impersonal recitation of
facts. The door is open for a fuller exploration, includ-
ing a visit to the campus.

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Hidden Havens

by David Turner

t- rom where I stood I could see most of the Pocket
Wilderness. A great gorge split the forest in two. Smal-
ler valleys spliced it up into a typical Tennessee land-
scape. Cliffs crowned one of the more prominent hills.
After a moment of observation and wonder at the vast-
ness and beauty of creation, I stepped onto the pedals
and spun down the dusty road.

The splash and roar of early-spring flooding greeted
me as the road broadened into a level parking lot. I
stopped by the sign that said "Picnic Area," and, leav-
ing the bike there, passed the scattered cars on foot. At
the far end, the old mining road, turned footpath, began
its chmb by the swollen waters of Richland Creek.
When I had scarcely passed the Hiwassee Land Com-
pany marker, I came upon a small wooden bridge.
Below was a deeply cut trickle that laughed as it
splashed downward, adding its tiny voice to the many
trickles that roared over rock and by boulder to join the
mighty Tennessee River a few miles downstream. Up
the path and around a bend or two, the hill opened,
disclosing the darkness of an abandoned and coUapsed
mining tunnel. Having searched its shallow depths be-
fore, I passed the arched entrance and continued on.

With hill and stream bed, the path rose high above or
dipped down and nearly into the flood. To the right,
smaller trails zigzagged up the mountain. I chose one of
these, and soon the roaring that had so incessantly
pounded in my ears became an echo in the distance. My
path was joined by another. I am told that all the paths
wandering upward from the mining road soon join
hands and lead to Laurel Falls. That was my destina-
tion.

My way cut up the steep slope, detouring around
boulders that reached to the tops of surrounding trees.
Soon I rested; and, looking outward from where I sat on
a fallen log, I could see the grey and green unbroken
carpet of trees over the hills and valleys below. It was

very quiet. I was completely alone, yet the presence of
the Creator seemed quite real.

One foot in front of the other, over and over again, my
steps led toward the top. When I was panting as hard as
after a Bryan intramural basketball game and was hunt-
ing for another log or smooth rock to sit on, the slope
leveled out. From the trees to my right came the noise of
water bursting on rocks. I was below the summit, but I
had reached the lower end of the falls. I walked on the
sandy ledge beside the cliff in the direction of the sound.
Showers of water blew over the edge, spattering me.
Then the trees, parting, exposed the bare rock. Over
this the water tumbled, sparkling in the late afternoon
sun. I watched it splash on broken rocks at the bottom
and complain loudly as it hunted a way around a jutting
rock.

As I was turning to leave, from the boulders below I
caught the flash of blue jeans. I climbed down the rocks
and found another Bryan student enjoying the beauty of
the waterfall and the solitude of this unique, untouched
forest. We remained for some time talking of familiar
havens hidden in the surrounding hills. There were
many secluded coverts, caves, deserted mining
tunnels — their rotted timbers buckling under the earth
and rock — un wooded peaks overlooking the county,
deeply wooded slopes, which Bryan students often re-
visited as a relief from academic pressure. Then, as one
of the hills slipped over a comer of the sun, we rose
from our lofty point and together began the descent
toward Dayton and the college campus.

David Turner, a 1977 English major and honor graduate, is now
a postgraduate student pursuing teacher certification. Two sis-
ters, Bitsy 76, a Wycliffe missionary candidate, and Esther '77,
are also Bryan alumni. Their parents, Dr. and Mrs. Glen Turner,
Wycliffe Bible Translators in Ecuador, recently completed the
New Testament in the Jivaro language.

FALL 1977

THREE

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Academic Treasures

Located in a rural setting on a
wooded hilltop less than a mile from
the historic Rhea County Court-
house of Dayton, Bryan is now in its
forty-eighth year of fulfilling its
chartered purpose "as an institution
of higher learning to provide men
and women with a liberal arts edu-
cation in a distinctly Christian at-
mosphere." Students are able to
fulfill their own educational goals
while pursuing the bachelor's de-
gree in a range of majors in the arts
and sciences and professional pro-
grams.

Based on a strong program of
general education, all fifteen majors
prepare students for careers and for
graduate study. The complete list of
these majors appears elsewhere in
this issue. The real treasure of
academic pursuit is the Biblical ap-
proach to the integration of faith,
learning, and life, which is at the
core of the curriculum.

The student body of over 500 is
taught by a qualified and dedicated
faculty of thirty-one full-time per-
sons plus several part-time. Nearly
half of the regular full-time teachers
hold the earned doctorate. Some of
the part-time teachers are adminis-
trators, whereas others are spe-
cialists from the local area.

These treasured opportunities are
reviewed in the following excerpts
from the testimonies of alumni and
continuing students as they share
impressions concerning their edu-
cational experiences at Bryan.

BUSINESS
Terry Stack 77

For the first two years of my un-
dergraduate education, I attended a
community college in Florida. Al-
though my education there was
adequate and I had the pleasure of
studying under some outstanding
professional people who were
brought to the campus as part-time
faculty members, I sadly missed
personal contact and the opportu-
nity to interact with my professors
on a one-to-one basis. A former

Bryan student, who, by the way,
was an excellent sales representa-
tive for the college, convinced me
that Bryan was the place for me. I
finished my last two years of college
at Bryan with a major in business
administration, and I am presently
employed by the Dayton Bank and
Trust Company of Dayton, Tennes-
see.

Among the things that I really ap-
preciate about the business depart-
ment at Bryan College are the excel-
lent preparation and experience of
the men teaching in it. Because of
his vast experience in the business
community, the head of the depart-
ment was able to move far beyond
the confines of the textbook and to
use personal illustrations and
examples from the business world.

Now that I am a part of the busi-
ness community myself, though
starting at the bottom, I very much
look forward to the climb up the
business ladder of success. I feel
that my academic preparation at
Bryan College was totally adequate.

EDUCATION
Carol Kincald 77

I came to Bryan four years age
seeking a major in elementary edu
cation. Throughout those foui
years, I found each member of th(
education department to be wel
qualified, dedicated, and sincere ii
his task of training teachers. Thf
professors are eager to sit down and
discuss the objectives of theii
courses and at the same time to lis-
ten to the student's desires and
ideas. The student finds that he is
more than just a member of a class;
he is made to feel that he has a valu-
able contribution to make.

Each course I took was interest
ing, stimulating, and profitable.
Every provision was made to give
me as much exposure to educational
techniques and philosophies as pos-
sible. After much classroom prep-
aration, I found student-teaching in
a local school to be a rewarding and
profitable experience.

I highly recommend Bryan's edu-
cation department to anyone who is
sincerely interested in an education
major. The school motto, "Christ
Above All," is incorporated by
these professors in their courses
and their lives. The love they have
for their students and their subject is
constant and contagious, reflecting
their own personal relationship to
our Lord Jesus Christ. Can there be
a firmer basis for a good education?

FOUR

BRYAN LIFE

HISTORY
Douglas Zopfl 77

When I selected my major at
Bryan, I decided on history, largely
because of my personal preference.
However, I believe that the study of
history at an institution like Bryan
does offer every student an un-
limited opportunity to expand his
understanding of man's political,
social, ideological, and spiritual de-
velopment.

The history major at Bryan is
quite demanding and requires a
considerable amount of time and
dedication. Assigned readings are
extremely helpful in teaching the
student to critically analyze an au-
thor's writings to determine his
thesis, as well as to observe major
strengths and weaknesses.

Some courses also require the
student to submit research projects
or written articles of a historical na-
ture. Bryan's library offers the stu-
dent a wide variety of reading and
research materials, which generally
are more than adequate for most re-
search topics. These writing exer-
cises afford the student an oppor-
tunity and challenge to introduce
and demonstrate his own creative
ideas and interpretations in his
work.

A large number of history majors
use the knowledge and skills gained
from studying history while prepar-
ing for full-time Christian ministry
in seminary. Other history majors
do enter the teaching profession.
Some, like myself, plan to do
graduate work in the field of history
before teaching on the college or
high school level. It is indeed a trib-
ute to Bryan College that most
graduates have few problems in
being accepted at quality
seminaries, graduate schools, or
places of employment throughout
the country.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Lynette Goehring, senior

"What college should I attend?"
is the question students face during
the junior and senior years in high
school. "What shall I do after I
graduate?" is the question I am fac-
ing as a senior Christian Education
major.

The required courses for my CE
major cover the various aspects of
teaching and training people from
small children to the elderly and go
into depth with each age group. The
missions course I have taken has
opened up many new areas of mis-
sion work and exposed me to a vari-
ety of mission boards.

Every CE major must work two
years in Practical Christian In-
volvement, the organization which
provides opportunities for students
to reach out into the community and
use the knowledge they are gaining.
I have been involved in PCI since
my freshman year. I have really en-
joyed working with area school
children and presenting the gospel
to them in Bible classes and through
the AWANA club.

Through the Big Sister/Big
Brother program, Bryan students
gain experience and ministry
through family relations by "adopt-
ing" a child as a sister or brother.
Through my "little sister" I have
been able to serve her family and
help them out in various ways.

Now I feel I will be prepared to go
out and work in the Christian Edu-
cation field because my teachers
have taught me well, and practical
experience has prepared me to
serve. Wherever the Lord leads,
this training will be useful.

InGO MAJOR
Louise Burt, senior

I chose the individualized goal
oriented (InGO) major because it al-
lows me to develop, under guidance
and with certain limits, a major
program suited to my own personal
educational and vocational goals in
the areas of my own interest.

Pursuing the InGO major enabled
me to pick up teacher certification
in two areas that interest me —
physical education and art. In addi-
tion I will satisfy the requirements
for graduate school by the time I
finish my program next May.

The InGO major was developed
especially for students like me, who
wanted to complete their education
at Bryan but who are concentrating
in areas other than the regular
majors offered here. Therefore, I
have been allowed to set my voca-
tional goals and prepare programs
that will enable me to enter my cho-
sen field as a qualified individual.

To do this, I first checked to see
what qualifications I would need to
enter into a professional career in
teaching physical education and
coaching as governed by the state's
certification requirements and
graduate school requirements.
Then I devised my individualized
plan of study to help me reach these
goals.

I chose to do this because I am
interested in art and athletics, and I
believe that as a Chrisdan coach and
teacher I will have many oppor-
tunities to share Christ. I also feel
that sports in general help young
people to develop patience, persist-
ence, and the ability to get along
well with other individuals, as well
as to develop their bodies.

FALL 1977

FIVE

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W|oviv»«r Infallible Originals

HOW RELIABLE IS OUR PRESENT OLD TESTAMENT TEXT?

by Dr. Irving L. Jensen, Th.D.

1 he reliability of our present Old Testament text
depends on the infallibility of the original writings. The
only sound starting point in the present inquiry is a
belief in the verbal (the very words) plenary (all the
words) view of inspiration of the originals. But we do
not possess any portion of the original writings. We
have only copies of copies of copies. . . . We may well
ask the question, therefore, "How accurate are our
copies?" — that is, how close to the original Old Testa-
ment text are our present Old Testament Scriptures?
The complexity and difficulty of the task of such an
evaluation can easily be appreciated when it is realized
that two writings are being compared, one of which
does not exist!

How accurate is our Old Testament text? It is a
known fact that compared with all other ancient writ-
ings, the Old Testament has no close competitor for
accuracy of transmission down through the ages. The
divine preservation of the text through scribal copyings
has been of such a character that by a comparison of the
hundreds of extant Old Testament manuscripts a text of
the Scriptures can be determined that is substantially

■ pure, where no doctrine is seriously jeopardized, where
the historical record is practically totally reliable, and
where the words or letters in question are for the most
part not crucial to the discipHnes of Bible study. Such a
claim is not the product of wishful thinking, but the
conclusion of hosts of scholars who have devoted their
lives to the tasks of textual evaluation and its associated
studies.

; Before the days of the printing press, scribes made
written copies of the Old Testament from the manu-
script in their hand. Occasionally, unintentional errors
of the eye or ear appeared; less frequently the scribe
would intentionally alter the text, usually with the mo-
tive to correct what he thought was erroneous in the
manuscript from which the copy was being made . Er-
rors of production have also appeared in printed Bibles ,
though very few in number. In the seventeenth century
a Bible was dubbed the "Wicked Bible" for carelessly
omitting the word "not' ' in the seventh commandment,
printing it as "Thou shalt commit adultery." Even
modem Bibles, checked by many proofreaders before
being printed, appear with minor errors. But no error is
a problem if we know the history or source of the error.
Fortunately, most scribal errors, even though originally
made in manuscripts not now in our possession, can be
so identified — by a comparison with other manuscripts.

SIX

versions, patristic quotations, worship service lec-
tionaries, and the like. Those that cannot be so ac-i ,
counted for constitute the Old Testament words or let-l
ters in question.

Why didn't God give infallibility to the work of the
scribes or copyists, as He did to the work of the original] '.
authors? God produced infallible originals because aj
"breathing" creation of the Word by God was basically!
involved. On the other hand, God permits fallible]
copies because in the innumerable copyings the propa-
gation of the Word by man is basically involved. God
kept the consequences of the Edenic curse from touch-
ing the original writings, but to do the same for the
process of propagation would mean that the entire
Church, which is committed to a world-wide ministry of
the Word in the Christian age, would be made abso-
lutely perfect in all its Christian functions. This would
abrogate God's decree to Adam and his posterity re-
garding the curse for sin and would also be premature in
God's plans for the Church.

However, though the copies have been permitted of
God to be fallible. He has afforded no less than super-
natural preservation of the copying processes , such that
the copies of the Old Testament today, three or four
thousand years later, are substantially pure and doctri-
nally true. Were there no explicit data to confirm the
accuracy of the present Old Testament text, the Chris-
tian would nevertheless believe it to be accurate, a faith
not unreasonable. For if he beheves that God super-
naturally inspired the original writings, thfen it is a
reasonable faith for him to believe that God would also
supematurally preserve his Word down through the
ages. But the Christian today has a mass of data con-
firming the Old Testament's reUability, which he may,
use especially to disarm the objections of the unbe- .
liever. As the time gap between the original writings and'
the present Bible versions widens, God permits man to
uncover more and more confirming evidence.

The claim that our present Old Testament Scriptures
very accurately represent the original writings, may be >
substantiated by the following three groups of data:
1. The accuracy of the tenth and eleventh century He-
brew manuscripts

Up until recent years these were the earliest Hebrew
manuscripts of the Old Testament extant, that is, in our
possession. Included in the group are the Leningrad
codex of the Prophets, written A.D. 916, the very valu-
able Aleppo manuscript of the entire Old Testament of
about the same time, and another codex of the entire
^a: Old Testament, written during the eleventh century.
These manuscripts represent what has been called the
Masoretic text, which is not any one individual manu-
'^' script, but a family of texts, originating as far back as
ijr the second century a.d. This Masoretic text has been-
^' the basis of the Old Testament of most printed Bibles.
The outstanding observation to be made concerning ;

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this family of manuscripts is the fact that they are prac-
tically identical with each other. This observation, to-
gether with the fact that the transmitting channels of
many of the manuscripts were different, supports the
conclusion that the Masoretic manuscripts of the tenth
century represent very faithfully the Hebrew text of at
least the second century a.d. Knowing how meticu-
lously the Masoretic scribes guarded the accuracy of
their copyings, we are not surprised to find the tenth
century manuscripts in such pure state.

2. The witness of the fourth and fifth century Greek
Septuagint manuscripts

While our oldest extant Hebrew Old Testament man-
uscripts of any substantial size were copied no earlier
than AD. 900, we have manuscripts of the entire Old
Testament in the Greek language, called the Septuagint
version, copied by scribes in the fourth and fifth cen-
turies. These early copies are found in the codices
Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Alexandrinus, which con-
tain the New Testament text as well. The original Sep-
tuagint version dates back to about 250 B.C.. when the
Pentateuch was translated from Hebrew to Greek by
Alexandrian Jews of Egypt. Within one hundred years
the remaining Old Testament books were Hkewise
translated. This Greek Septuagint was an important Old
Testament version for the early Christian centuries,
being the Scriptures used and often quoted by Jesus and
the apostles.

A comparison of the early Greek manuscripts and the
Hebrew Masoretic manuscripts reveals the former to be
of lesser accuracy, many of the differences being attrib-
uted simply to the limitations of the translation process.
The main value of the Septuagint is that with its similar
content and explainable differences, it has confirmed
the accuracy of the Masoretic text, and at the same
time, by comparison with other writings, has contrib-
uted to a more exact knowledge of what the original
Old Testament autographs read. The same contribu-
tions have been made by other Old Testament versions
of early centuries, space forbidding their description
here.

3; The witness of the Dead Sea Scrolls

~^ As the time gap between the Biblical autographs and
contemporary versions has widened, God has chosen to
bring to light more and more evidence confirming the
fact of the preservation of the Biblical text down
through the centuries. The discoveries of the Dead Sea
Scrolls are without equal for substantiating the purity of
our present Old Testament text. Found in various caves
just off the northwest comer of the Dead Sea were many
manuscripts, whole or in part. Biblical and secular,
written and deposited by a community of Essenes, who
lived in this area from about 150 B.C. to a.d. 70. About
one hundred of the reconstructed manuscripts are of the
Old Testament in Hebrew. A scroll of the entire
prophecy of Isaiah was found in Cave I in 1947; the most
important discoveries were made in Cave IV in 1952,
these being fragments of every Old Testament book
except Esther. Two very important conclusions have
been reached concerning the Dead Sea Biblical manu-
scripts: first, that some of the copyings were made as far
back as 150 B.C.. and secondly, that the text of the
scrolls is substantially the same as that of the Masoretic
text of the tenth century. The chain of confirming evi-
dence thus extended itself to this length: our twentieth

Dr. Irving L. Jensen, professor of Bible, has been a member of
the Bryan faculty since 1954. Well known for his promotion of the
inductive method of Bible study, he published in 1963 a book on
that subject, entitled Independent Bible Study, which established
him as an author. Since that time he has written fifty study vol-
umes covering the entire Bible, which are published by Moody
Press. One of his books. Enjoy Your Bible, was distributed by the
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association through its telecast series.
He is shown upper right teaching in a classroom.

century Old Testament, which has been based mainly
on tenth century manuscripts whose accuracy has been
confirmed by the fourth century Septuagint manu-
scripts, now is shown to be substantially the same as
second century B.C. Hebrew manuscripts. Stated from
another angle, the Old Testament of today (e.g. in Eng-
lish) is substantially the same as the Hebrew Old Tes-
tament of Jesus' day. And no greater authentication of
the Old Testament Scriptures has ever been made than
by the Son of God.

From the standpoint of confirming evidence, one can
thus see why so great importance has been attached to
the Dead Sea Scrolls.

CONCLUSION

To summarize, the following answer may be given
with assurance to the question "How reliable is our
present Old Testament text?":

1. Practically aU of the present Old Testament text
reliably represents the original autographs, the fraction
in question not jeopardizing any major doctrine.

2. This reliability is what we would expect, in view of
who God is and how important and crucial the Word is
for all ages and generations.

3. This is what has been confirmed by comparison of
all existing Old Testament manuscripts and versions,
including the oldest of these, the Dead Sea Scrolls.

4. This is what our faith would demand, even without
the confirming evidences, in view of the object of our
faith, the person of Jesus Christ, who is the key person
of the Bible.

FALL 1977

SEVEN

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Secrets of Social Lili

EIGHT

Young people want action! And they are interested
in finding it through interpersonal relationships. A defi-
nite plus at Bryan is that range of wholesome activities
outside the classroom which provides this action and
the opportunities for personal growth and development
in a supportive Christian community. These extra-
curricular activities occur in many places and under
many guises:

the Lions Den student center, a hub of social activity
with its snack bar, lounge, bookstore, and a number
of recreational facilities ;

intramural and varsity sports in the gym and on the
playing fields and on other campuses;

the student union, supported by a special fee,
with its full schedule of concerts on campus and
recreational excursions off campus;
class parties, outings, and the traditional
junior-senior banquet;

the all-college picnic at a scenic park in the
mountains;

banquets at homecoming. Thanksgiving,
Christmas, Valentine's, and at the end of
the year for athletics;
informal good fellowship and that one-to-one rela-
tionship called "dating," which leads every year
to a rash of wedding invitations on the college
bulletin boards.

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FALL 1977

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Modern Technology

A. quantum leap forward with computer facilities acquired last year puts Bryan's business and math
programs out in front to meet the competition in a computer-oriented world. Two types of computing
hardware were purchased — "hard copy" output for the business and economics department and
videoscreen output for the math and chemistry departments.

Dr. Robert Jenkins, professor of business, points out that the business and economics department
offers training in data processing management, which prepares a student for an entry level management
position in the computing section of a business, mission board, government agency or Christian
organization. Every business major at Bryan now receives individualized training on the computer and
learns to solve problems with computerized homework.

To quote Dr. Ralph Paisley, division chairman, "The computer is but one of several new opportunities
offered by the natural science division. Math students along with biology and chemistry students can now
use computers in their class work as well as in labs, using terminals that tie into computers at the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville . Bryan has access to virtually all of the UTK computer potential . ' '

A National Science Foundation grant helped the chemistry department to secure instruments which
enable the students to learn and use techniques of analysis which are important in educational and
research laboratories.

One student who prepared several organic compounds which were similar in structure and used the new
instruments to aid in the positive identification of the structures of the compounds presented his work
before the Tennessee Academy of Science. Bryan students regularly participate in the collegiate division
meetings of TAS.

Last spring eleven students participated in an experimental health-care course in cooperation with the
Rhea County Medical Center. Working in all areas of the hospital, they were exposed to actual health-care
situations, including maternity, emergency room, and nursing home care. This popular course will be
offered again in the spring of 1978.

and Student Financial Aid

What is financial aid, anyway?

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r inancial aid is money in the form of grants, loans,
and employment for full-time and half-time college stu-
dents. In 1976-77 student aid at Bryan exceeded
$600,000. Designated grants outside the regular budget
program were additional.

Grants do not have to be repaid. Loans must be
repaid after the student graduates from or leaves col-
lege. Employment aid is money earned by the student
for part-time work; it can be used for payment of college
bills and/or personal expenses.

How much financial aid is possible?

The amount of financial aid can range from very little
to a great deal. If a student's financial need is consider-
able, the aid provided will also be considerable. If a
student's financial need is minimal, the aid provided
will usually be minimal unless the student qualifies for
some special scholarship program that does not require
financial need as the basis for qualification.

How is financial need determined?

The amount that the student's family is expected to
contribute to the cost of education is determined first.
The cost of education at a particular college minus the
amount of expected family and student contribution
equals the "financial need" that college financial aid
officers attempt to meet with a package of grants, loans,
and/or employment. Some students will qualify for all
three forms of aid, whereas others may qualify for only
loans and/or employment. The cost of education in-
cludes tuition, fees, room, board, transportation, and a
hmited amount of personal expenses. Because the costs
vary from institution to institution, a student may show
more financial need at one college than at another.

To determine the expected family contribution,
Bryan College uses the American College Testing Fam-
ily Financial Statement (ACT FFS). The family com-
pletes and mails the ACT FFS form to the ACT com-
pany for computer processing. An evaluation report
generated by this processing is sent to the college desig-
nated by the student on the ACT FFS (code number for
Bryan College is 4038). This report gives sufficient in-
formation for the financial aid officer to deterrnine the
financial need and the federal financial aid programs
(grants, loans, and employment) for which the student
qualifies. Last year aid at Bryan for an individual stu-
dent ranged from a token amount of $100 up to $3,400
and averaged $1,600. Approximately two-thirds of all
full-time students received some kind of aid.

What are the specific financial aid programs?

The available financial aid programs for Bryan Col-
lege students are as follows:

Grants: Basic Educational Opportunity Grants
(BEOG)
Supplementary Educational Opportunity

Grants (SEOG)
Bryan Scholarship and Grants
State Scholarships or Grants
Loans: National Direct Student Loans (NDSL)

Guaranteed Student Loan Programs

through hometown banks
Bryan College Loans
Work: College Work-Study Program (CWSP)
Bryan Work Program

What "package" of financial aid can a student expect?

The financial circumstances which determine finan-
cial need for any two students are seldom alike in the
amounts of annual income, equity in home and other
assets, general home situation, summer earnings, etc.
Nevertheless, the following example will provide some
idea of the possibilities of financial aid packages:
Example: Freshman student

High School Grade Point average, 2.8
Family income $16,400, five-member fam-
ily, two in college, both parents work,
home equity $12,000, and savings $400.
Evaluation of financial need: $2,500 (for

one student)
Aid Awarded:

$200 Bryan Grant (music)
326 BEOG (federal grant)
600 SEOG (federal grant)
, 800 NDSL (loan)
545 CWSP (work)
$247 1 Total of financial aid package
The package of financial aid is built upon the BEOG
whenever the student qualifies for it. The amount of
BEOG is determined from the eligibility index and a
payment schedule provided the college by the Office of
Education.

What are the steps to follow in applying for aid?

1. Apply for admission to Bryan College.

2. Complete Bryan College Student Aid Application
and Employment forms.

3. Complete ACT FFS form after filUng out federal
income tax return.

. -; a. Request report from ACT FFS be sent to code
number 4038 for Bryan College,
b. If state scholarships or grants are available in
your state, request report from ACT FFS be sent
to state agency accepting this particular form.
(Tennessee residents request report be sent to
4015 for Tennessee Student Assistance Corpora-
tion.)

FALL 1977

ELEVEN

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Wlc^vivio^' the World of SPORTS

-Bryan achieved another successful sports year in 1976-77 with the seven athletic
teams combining for a total of 90 wins, 55 losses, and 3 ties. The men were 55-39-3, and
the two women's teams were 35-16.

Six of the teams had winning seasons along with capturing high honors. The soccer
team won the national championship, and the women's volleyball squad won the
Tennessee state championship. Each also won the Southern Christian Athletic Con-
ference title.

In addition to conference, state, and national tournaments, three Bryan squads won
invitational tournaments. The cross-country team won the Bryan Invitational, the
women's basketball squad took the Clearwater Christian Invitational, and the men's
basketball team took first in the Miami Christian tournament.

Many Lion and Lionette athletes were honored during the year. Three were named
All- American, seven more All-Tennessee, and many others made All-Conference and
All-Tournament teams. One fifth of the student body participated on one or more of
these championship teams.

"We don't get the super athletes, but those we do get all work to reach their
potential with the help of an outstanding coaching staff. We encourage everyone to
come out for our teams, and we have not cut anyone from a team in the five years I
have been here. Everyone is presented an opportunity to participate and achieve his
maximum potential. We also beheve that our athletes are well-rounded Christians,
who will serve around the world in various capacities," said athletic director John
Reeser.

Not just a school for aspiring intercollegiate athletes, Bryan provides a full scale of
intramural sports for other students who want to be more than spectators.

TWELVE

BRYAN LIFE

and Lands Abroad

PCI ^®" Students Explore Mission Fields

Practical
Christian
Involvement

Practical Christian outreach has
been a hallmark of Bryan students
from the earliest years of the col-
lege. Today's service organization,
called Practical Christian Involve-
ment, has the purpose to serve as a
channel for sharing the good news
of Jesus Christ in the local area and
to introduce students to the oppor-
tunities of fulfilling the Great Com-
mission around the world. PCI's
full-time director for 1977-78 is Tom
Vamey '77, who succeeds Lynn
Wheeler '75, director for the past
two years. The director, under the
supervision of Dr. Brian Rich-
ardson, associate professor of
Christian Education, and working
in cooperation with the elected
leaders of PCI, coordinates the
work of student volunteers, who
last year included about 75% of the
student body.

Areas of operation include these:
Student Foreign Missions Fellow-
ship, which sponsors six weekly
bands to pray for missions around
the world, entertains missionary
speakers, and provides a program of
missionary education for the college
community; Bible classes for
school-age children; gospel teams,
which fill engagements in word and
music in area churches; FiSH,
which features the Big Brother/Big
Sister ministry involving students
with children in the local commu-
nity; the nationally known
AwANA program held on Satur-
days in the gymnasium, which has
attracted children from ten com-
munities for a time of recreation and
Bible study; the Navigators Bible
study plan, which last year operated
in nine groups involving more than
one hundred college students each
week; nursing home visitation; and
Bible and tract distribution.

Shall I be a foreign missionary?
Can I learn the language? Will I ever
adjust to eating strange food? Will
children respond when I teach them
Bible stories?

These questions and many more
were answered through real life ex-
periences when ten Bryan students
participated in short-term summer
programs in seven foreign countries
and three widely scattered states.
These missionary venturers chose
their locations and shared in an
orientation program under the di-
rection of Lynn Wheeler, director
of Practical Christian Involvement.

PCI considers the summer mis-
sions program as one arm of its
ministry in providing opportunities
for students to have firsthand ex-
perience on the mission field. This
past year this student organization
provided one-third of the transpor-
tation and anticipated expense for
the Bryan representatives during
two months of service, for a total
support of $1,700. Funds were
raised during the year through con-
tributions by students (70%), fac-
ulty and staff, and other friends in
the community. The student mis-
sionaries were responsible for the
remaining two-thirds of their sup-
port, which is usually provided
through personal friends and home
churches.

Concerning this opportunity , a re-
peating summer missionary, Mary
Kirtley, a junior of Hamburg, Iowa,
says, 'T wanted to go back to see
how the work that we began a
couple of years ago was progressing
and to be a part of the work that is

going on today." Marcia Tobias, a
senior from Signal Mountain,
Tenn., confided her practical con-
sideration for the future as she
stated, "I hope to be able to deter-
mine through this experience
whether I am capable of serving the
Lord in a different culture."

When these summer missionaries
returned in the fall, the entire col-
lege community benefited by their
experiences as they reported
through slides and personal tes-
timonies in a chapel program.

The following list demonstrates
the broad interests of these young
people in their summer ministry:

HOME MISSIONS

Carol Gk)rdy, Montana, Rocky Moun-
tain Bible Mission (VBS teacher and
camp counselor)

Linda Liebig, Fort Washington, Pa.,
Christian Literature Crusade (work in
the art department)

Norma Sanders, Macon, Miss., Lake
Forest Ranch (youth counselor)

FOREIGN MISSIONS

Carol Baggerly, Scotland, Teen Mis-
sions (open-air meetings and beach
evangelism)

Anita Davis, Venezuela, The Evangeli-
cal Alliance Mission

Faith DuVall, France, Teen Missions

Mary Kirtley, Nicaragua (work with
children and in camp)

Wilina Mason, Niger Republic, Sudan
Interior Mission (work in business of-
fice)

Marcia Tobias, Valladolid, Spain,
Navigators (ministry to college stu-
dents)

Judy Welch, Belgian Bible Institute,
Greater Europe Mission

Pictured below in back row (left to right) are Marcia Tobias, Mary Kirtley, Anita
Davis, and Carol Gordy; middle row, Lynn Wheeler (PCI director). Norma Sanders,
Judy Welch, and Wilma Mason; front row, Carol Baggerly, Linda Liebig, and Faith
DuVaU.

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MUSIC, All

MUSIC — The music department traditionally has been a strong
academic department and through its performing activities a highly
visible one. The music major offers concentrations in applied
music, church music, and music theory. The music education
major for teachers is a joint responsibility with the education
department. s'^v a- y, ^

For more than a yearlfe thiisic department has used the Rudd
Memorial Chapel complex with its spacious new band and choir
facilities, teaching studios, classrooms, and practice rooms. It is
well equipped with ten new Baldwin- Hamilton practice pianos and
with a ten-foot concert Steinway piano and a new custom-built
Baldwin organ for the auditorium. This organ, the technical name
of which is Multi- waveform, is the latest development in the long
history of the organ, in which the console and sound of the tradi-
tional pipe organ are wedded to the latest technology by a light
photography process. The achievement is technological but the
sound is magnificent! In addition, a Schantz pipe organ and two
electronic organs provide ample equipment for organ students.

Opportunities for student performance include participation in
the college choir, chorale, Collegiate Singers, symphonic band,
and Gospel Messengers. In addition to making tours during vaca-
tion periods, these musical groups have a full performance
schedule on campus and in the surrounding areas during the school
year. The department also works with PCI in the musical develop-
ment of gospel teams for a ministry m churches

Heading the department is Dr Bob Neil

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ART — The objectives of the art
department include the providing of
experience and practice in the vari-
ous art media so that students may
discover their individual abilities
and develop these talents. The de-
partment offers a wide range of
courses equal in credit hours to a
major, with certification available in
art education. The work of the de-
partment, which includes an annual
art show is directed by Kent Juil-
lard, associate professor of art

BRYAN FACT-SULE

AMA AND SPEECH

DRAMA AND SPEECH - New

learning experiences to develop tal-
ent in the theatre arts are open to
interested students through Hilltop
Players, who present a major pro-
duction in the fall and several one-
act plays in the spring. In recent
years the playbill has included: The
Miracle Worker, The Diary of Anne
Frank, Our Town, The Matchmaker,
Christ in the Concrete City, and Ten
Miles to Jericho. This past year the
troupe was the first to perform on
the new Rudd Memorial Chapel
stage.

The Traveling Troupe within the
Players has had opportunity in the
past to present plays in churches
both in the local area and in
neighboring states. Reader's
Theatre was added to the Hilltop
Players" repertoire this past year.
This type of drama, reading from a
script and done without costuming
and lighting, can easily be per-
formed in a chancel, on a bare stage,
or in a large room.

Members of the Troupe may earn
one hour of credit each semester by
working 45 hours on a production.
In helping to provide good enter-
tainment and cultural enrichment
for Bryan students as well as for
people in Dayton, many students
have discovered hidden talent in
dramatic expression or have de-
_ veloped those abilities already
known.

The literature and modern lan-
guages division and the department
of education offer courses leading to
teacher certification in speech,
which includes the opportunity to
direct dramatic activities as well as
to teach speech.

Miss Rachel Ross, assistant pro-
fessor, is director of drama and
speech.

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Admissions

Requirements:

Costs 1977-78:

Accreditation
and Recognition:

Academic
Program:

Bryan College

Dayton, Tennessee 37321

Area 615 775-2041

(Prospective students within mainland USA are invited to call

collect.)

Dayton is on US 27 in the scenic and historic Tennessee Valley

38 miles north of Chattanooga and 82 miles southwest of Knox-

ville.

A four- year Christian college of arts and sciences.
1977 fall enrollment — 548; equal ratio of men and women; en-
rollment represents 36 states and 19 foreign countries.

Nonsectarian by charter and transdenominational in fellow-
ship. Committed to the Bible as the Word of God written and to
Jesus Christ as living Lord. Student body, faculty, alumni, and
constituency represent the evangelical Christian spectrum.
"Christ Above All"

High school graduation or equivalent, with a 2.0 or "C" aver-
age; ACT (American College Testing) scores; satisfactory ref-
erences.

Advanced standing available through credit and/or exemption
by satisfactory scores on prescribed standardized tests, such as
CLEF, Advanced Placement, etc.

Tuition $ 1 ,750; Student Fee $40; Room $650; Board $850; Total
$3,290 (not including travel and personal expenses).
Student aid, available according to need, averages $1,900.

Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools; approved for training of veterans; membership in
numerous educational organizations (list appears in catalog).

The bachelor's degree offered in the following majors:

Bible
♦Biology

Business Administration
♦Business Education
♦Chemistry

Christian Education
♦Elementary Education

Grades 1-9)
♦English

Goal Oriented Major

Greek
♦History
♦Mathematics
Music (concentrations in theory
and in applied and church
music)
♦Music Education

(Grades 1-12)
♦Natural Science
♦Psychology

♦Teacher certification available in these majors plus Kindergar-
ten Education (K-3), Special Education, and Art Education
(Grades 1-12)

Director of Admissions

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Dayton, Tennessee 37321

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COVER PHOTO

The administration building in a
winter setting was photo-
graphed in color by a student
photographer, John Shalanko
77, fortheCOM/WOA/£R, the col-
lege yearbook.

COLOR PHOTO (page 8)

Holy Family with Elizabeth by
Cunnyngham Studio.

Volume 3

WINTER 1977

Number 2

GREETINGS FROM JERUSALEM: A Bryan professor invests his 3

sabbatical leave in studying and teaching at the center of Bible
geography. By Alan Winkler

HOW RELIABLE IS OUR PRESENT NEW TESTAMENT TEXT? 4

The fourth article in a series on the inspiration, canon, and text of
the Bible. By Dr. John C. Anderson

THE NATIVITY: This poem is taken from Clarke's anthology, 7

Christ in Poetry.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS: Bryan is sharing with all friends and 8

readers the annual Christmas message through the reproduction of
a famous painting.

CAMPUS CALENDAR: Special programs and speakers are Hsted 9

to provide a schedule of campus activities for visitors, parents, and
other friends.

WALKING IN HIS CRUNCHES: A heart-stirring story by a Bryan 10

alumna of finding solace in the midst of grief. By Maureen Hay
Read

CAMPUS REVIEW: A cross section of news and events about the 12

college community.

I LIKE TO HELP BRYAN STUDENTS: A long-time friend follows 15

her sister's example in supporting scholarship aid.

DITOFRIA.!-

Bryan's Christmas greeting to you this
year is to be found in the center page of
this issue of Bryan Life. The repro-
duced painting of the Holy Family with
Elizabeth and John focuses the Christmas
story on those stirring behind-the-scenes
occurrences in the lives of Zacharias and
Elizabeth and Mary and Joseph, which led to the miraculous births of the
two children. A reading of Luke 1 makes the painting come alive as a
pictorial representation of two great events in the history of our
salvation — the birth of John, who was called the prophet of the Highest
and was to prepare the way of the Lord, and the birth of Jesus, the Son of
the Highest, who would save His people from their sins. Truly we can join
in Zacharias's inspired prayer "that we being delivered out of the hand of
our enemies, might serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness
... all the days of our lives."

Theodore C. Mercer

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Qreetings

from Jerusalem!

Mr. Winkler received the B.A. from Bryan in 1960 and tine Th.M. from Dallas Theological
Seminary in 1965. He returned to Bryan the same year for a faculty appointment and has
continued asassistant professor of Christian Education and Bible. He is pastor of the Ogden
Baptist Church near Dayton. The Winklers' two daughters, Annette (Mrs. Owen Egeberg)
and Connie, are also Bryan graduates.

Mr. and Mrs. Winkler

v^ limbing the Judean hills, strolling along the shores
of the Sea of Galilee, or browsing in the historic city of
Jerusalem — all are part of the activities that make the
pages of Alan Winkler's Bible tingle with life and mean-
ing while he is both studying and teaching at the Insti-
tute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem this fall. Both
Mr. Winkler and his wife, Hilda, are enjoying this
unique opportunity to spend four months at the geo-
graphical center of Bible history while Mr. Winkler is

Photo by Jack Lacey '52

on a sabbatical leave from Bryan's division of Biblical
studies. The Winklers will spend Christmas in the Holy
Land, returning to Tennessee in early January, just in
time for the second semester here.

To share his enthusiasm for this study and travel
privilege, Mr. Winkler sends greetings to the Bryan
family, which we are passing on to our extended family
in Christ.

"Greetings from the Land of oui Lord!

"This is the greatest expeiience of our Uves. Yes-
terday we stood on the remains of four ancient Ju-
dean cities and went through the valley of Elah,
where David killed Goliath.

"lam studying under some of the greatest scholars
from the universities here in Israel, who teach one
course each at the Institute. I am taking two courses
in archaeology and one in Bible history. In addition
to this, we are going through the land in a series of
field trips from the Institute. Our trip yesterday was
the second one. We also have a class in Modern
Israeli Society with different speakers each week. So
far we have heard an Arab scholar and an Israeli
army officer. I just can 't wait to share all these things
with my classes at Bryan.

"Every few days we visit the empty tomb of our
Lord. My first impression of Calvary was a little
disappointing. It is surrounded by shops, and in front
there is a bus station. I had expected a quiet place,
where one could meditate. But I began to realize that
Jesus died there to meet the needs of our busy twen-
tieth century lives. Yes, that is where Calvary be-
longs for each of us — right in the center of life's

^""■^■^^•" Alan Wmkler

WINTER 1977.

THREE

HOW RELIABLE IS OUR PRESENT
NEW TESTAMENT TEXT?

by John C. Anderson, Th.D.

If the original New Testament documents were
available, the question of reliability of the New Testa-
ment text would be forever settled inasmuch as the
exact words of the author would be known; but such is
not the case. Because of the perishable nature of writing
materials utilized in ancient days, time has taken its toll ,
and the original manuscripts have disappeared. Al-
though the original manuscripts are no longer extant,
still there is an abundance of copies. At a recent count
there were known to exist 5,338 manuscript copies of all
or part of the Greek New Testament.

Prior to the invention of printing, about the middle of
the fifteenth century, copies of documents were pro-
duced by hand. The transcription in this way of such
documents naturally resulted in the introduction of er-
rors due to human fallibility. Succeeding copies not
only perpetuated the errors of the first copy but also
permitted the introduction of new variations. Thus, the
number of deviations from the original was increased in
proportion to the number of copyings. The presence of
such variations in the extant evidence has given birth to
the problem question posed by the title of this article —
how reliable then is the text of the New Testament?

The problem, however, is not unique to the New
Testament manuscripts, but is likewise shared by all
classical literary works. Such variations have caused
the development of the science of textual criticism
which has for its purpose the recovery of the exact text
of the original document. The New Testament, in con-
trast to the classical literature of the same general
period, occupies a most favorable position as far as
amount, variety, and quality of evidence are con-
cerned. The evidence for the text of classical literature
is extremely limited, e.g., Caesar's Gallic War (written
between 58-50 B.C.) has only nine or ten copies, with
the earliest copy being dated about 900 years after the
original. The New Testament, however, differs sharply
in this respect in that there are four distinct sources of
evidence , with an abundance of material in each source .
The sources of evidence are manuscripts, ancient ver-
sions, lectionaries, and the patristic writings.

ing the value of the manuscript are the type of text
involved and the number of copyings by which it is
removed from the original document. Age is a relative
factor but must be carefully considered. As a general
rule, the style of writing and type of material utilized,
indicate the age. The uncials vary greatly in age and
value. The leading codices of this group are Codex
Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, the former being the
only uncial that contains the whole New Testament.
This particular codex is dated around 375 A.D.,
whereas the latter is generally placed in the middle of
the same century.

PAPYRI

In addition to the uncials, the papyri, so named be-
cause they were written on material derived from the
papyrus plant of Egypt, also occupy an important posi-
tion. The significance of this type of manuscript is that it
contains portions of the New Testament which are 100
to 150 years earlier than the oldest uncials. The most
important of this type are the Chester Beatty papyri,
which he purchased in Egypt in 1930 and which con-
tained three valuable codices of the New Testament. If
complete, they would have contained all of the New
Testament except the pastoral and catholic epistles.
Recent discoveries of papyrological fragments have
pushed the date back to 125 A.D. If such dating be
conceded, then there is a text existing within thirty-five
years of the writing of the last book of the New Testa-
ment.

MINUSCULES

Again, it must be observed that it is not the date of a
manuscript which is necessarily the most important
factor but rather the number of copyings by which it is
removed from the original. A shorter time, however,
might suggest fewer copyings than a longer period, and
thus, the text might be of better quality. It is also impor-
tant to realize that a manuscript of a comparatively late
date might have been copied from one of much earlier
date and/or of purer text. This is true of the last class of

MANUSCRIPTS

In the nature of the case, manuscripts furnish the
most important source of evidence for the text. There
are three types of manuscripts: uncials, papyri, and
minuscules or cursives. Although the papyrological
texts are generally older, the leading manuscript evi-
dence appears to be afforded by the uncials (manu-
scripts written in capital letters), of which there are well
over 200 in existence. The leading factors in determin-

TheNew Testament Documents , Are They Reliable? by F.
F. Bruce and currently published by InterVarsity Press
in a paperback is recommended. Since appearing in
January 1943, this first work of Dr. Bruce has gone
through five editions with nineteen printings.

Bryan's own alumnus Wilbur Pickering '56 has con-
tributed to the scholarly discussion in the area of textual
criticism through his volume. The Identity of the New
Testament Text, published earlier this year by Thomas
Nelson, Inc.

FOUR

BRYAN LIFE

Dr. John Anderson, professor of ancient languages,
holds the B.A, degree from the University of Illinois and the
Th.M. and Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr.
Anderson shares with Dr. Irving L. Jensen the honor of
senior faculty member at Bryan w/ith twenty-three years of
service. Dr. and Mrs. Anderson have two sons and one
daughter, all of whom attended Bryan. Mrs. Anderson is
also on the library staff.

manuscripts: namely, the minuscules. The name itself
means rather small and suggests a small letter as op-
posed to an uncial or capital. The style of writing is the
cursive (running) style, which came to the fore for liter-
ary purposes in the tenth century. The minuscules
cover a period from the tenth to the fifteenth century.
The dating is somewhat misleading in that the inference
might be drawn that a manuscript was far removed from
the original text when such might not be the case. All
minuscules are comparatively late, but careful studies
have shown that certain families of this group are very
important and contain an early text. The number of this
type of evidence exceeds 2,700.

ANCIENT VERSIONS

The ancient versions constitute the second source of
evidence. This does not necessarily imply that they are
second in value. The term version simply means to turn;
that is, to turn the Greek of the original into another
language. There were three primary versions: Syriac,
Egyptian, and Latin. Each of these in turn contains
several translations. For example, the Syriac has the
following translations: Diatessaron of Tatian, Old
Syria, Peshitta, Philoxenian Syriac, Harkeleian, and
Palestinian Syriac. These vary in character, date, and
value. The importance of these and other versions is
twofold: first, some of them are 150-200 years before
the major uncials; and, second, if the original text of the
version can be reproduced, then the type of Greek text
available in the area can be determined. The disadvan-
tage, however, is apparent: a second step would be
necessary in the critical process before the original text
was reached, in that the versions themselves are the
subject of criticism. The chance for error, thus, is com-
pounded.

PATRISTIC WRITINGS

The third type of evidence is that presented by the
Church Fathers. The patristic writings have certain
values , as well as disadvantages . The former is that it is
known, within limits, when the fathers lived, where
they lived, and when they wrote. Thus, the early date of
many has a distinct value in localizing and dating the
various versions and texts. The disadvantages, too, are
clear. The Church Fathers were not so precise in their
quotations as we today would wish. The looseness
might be the result of quoting from memory or the lack
of a manuscript. In spite of this fault, the quotations
have degrees of certainty and value. In addition, be-
cause the original writings of the fathers have vanished,
these quotations, too, are subject to textual criticism.
Nonetheless, it must be asserted that they have a rela-
tive value with regard to the reestablishment of the
authentic text of the New Testament.

LECTIONARIES

The last source of testimony as to the original text of
the New Testament is found in the lectionaries. These
were reading lessons of the text adapted for public
worship. Although the lectionaries were considered of
little value in the past for textual criticism, recent
studies have shown that, although they exhibit certain
adaptations and omissions, they do contain a conser-
vative type of text. Their value is augmented by the fact
that nearly 2,200 of them are known to be in existence.

These, along with the other sources of evidence for
the text, indicate the abundance of materials for the
textual criticism of the New Testament. The text of no
other document of antiquity is as well attested.

FACTORS RELEVANT TO VARIATIONS

Within this abundance of evidence there are many
variations resulting from the hand-copying of the text.
Several elements may cause the introduction of errors
into the copied document:

1) the esteem in which the original manuscript was held
(extreme care undoubtedly would be taken in repro-
duction of a highly esteemed document, a fact
clearly illustrated by the attitude the Jews had to-
ward the text of the Old Testament);

2) the training of the copyist (it is reasonable to assume
that a poorly trained individual would turn out work
inferior to that of a more highly qualified person);

3) the physical quality of work being copied (the legibil-
ity of the handwritten document being copied could
affect the accuracy of the transcription);

4) the process of the copying — whether the autograph
was being copied directly or was being read by an
individual and copied by others (mass production of
copies of manuscripts was accomplished in this
manner in the early days); and

5) the purpose for which the copy was made (it is con-
ceivable that less care would be taken in some in-
stances than in others for this reason).

WINTER 1977

FIVE

KINDS OF ERRORS

In the transcription of a document, there are two
classes of scribal enors that may be made: namely,
intentional and unintentional. The former kind arose
when the scribe deliberately corrected the text with the
idea of doing it for the good; that is, he considered the
text to be wrong, and he was endeavoring to correct it.
There are five kinds of intentional errors: 1) The correc-
tion of spelling and grammatical errors, 2) corruptions
made in a deliberate attempt to harmonize one passage
with another, 3) historical corrections to clear up dif-
ficulties and supposed inaccuracies, 4) doctrinal cor-
ruption made to support the views of the scribe, and 5)
liturgical changes introduced when selections were
adapted for public reading, a type of error common in
the lectionary or service book.

The second class of error, the unintentional, is by far
the more common of the two and is due to human
fallibility . Six types of unintentional corruptions may be
noted: errors of the eye, ear, memory, pen, speech, and
judgment.

For example, errors of the eye involved the repetition
or omission of words and clauses; errors of the ear were
introduced when a manuscript was prepared from dicta-
tion because the distinction in pronunciadon between
the vowels and diphthongs was not altogether clear; and
the errors of judgment would include the misreading of
abbreviations or the insertion of marginal glosses as a
part of the original text.

Thus, through intenfional and unintentional errors,
the deviations from the original manuscript were intro-
duced into the many extant copies . The question ' ' What
did the original manuscripts actually contain, since
there are so many variations?" presents a major prob-
lem. The development of the science of textual criticism
is a deliberate attempt to restore the original text as far
as possible.

CRITICAL STUDY OF THE EVIDENCE

From the foregoing, the inference may be wrongly
drawn that the whole text of the New Testament has
been corrupted and therefore stands in doubt. This is
not the fact; actually, with regard to the major part of
the text, there is no variation or other ground for doubt.
The science of criticism enters only where there is
disagreement among the documents transmitting the
text. The primary purpose of criticism is the purifica-
tion of the text by the discovery and rejection of the
false. It is generally accepted that approximately
seven-eighths of the text is beyond quesdon. The re-
maining eighth is the valid subject of criticism. Within
this small portion there are many types of deviations,
corruptions ranging from spelling errors to lengthy
omissions but none affecting the substantive message of
the Bible or any major doctrine of Christianity.

The practice of textual criticism relative to docu-
ments has been known since the days of the Old Testa-
ment. Although it was exercised to a limited degree with
regard to the text of the New Testament in early days,
its development into a full-orbed science is of relatively

recent origin. The King James Version of the Bible rests
on the non-critical Textus Receptus or Received Text,
which was based on late Greek minuscules and was
largely the work of Erasmus in the sixteenth century.

Of the several scholars active in the growing area of
textual criticism since the Authorized Version of the
seventeenth century, two Cambridge scholars,
Westcott and Hort, in the late nineteenth century de-
veloped principles of criticism and produced a text
which were accepted by the Revisers of 1881-85 and
which have generally prevailed in the field of textual
criticism until recently. Perhaps the greatest contribu-
tion of these men was their theory of the families of
documents. This principle is still intact with but slight
modifications, more recent scholarship adjusting the
limits of the families and adopting a fivefold classifica-
tion: the Byzantine, the Alexandrian, the Western, the
Caesarean, and the Syriac. Though the theory of
families of documents appears to have been estab-
lished, the debate goes on as new discoveries are made.

In more recent decades, developments have been in
the direction of eclecticism, in which each scholar and
translator, considering variant readings on their merits
and having weighed the evidence for themselves, select
for translation in each passage the reading which in their
judgment seems most likely to represent what the au-
thor wrote. Recent versions such as RSV, NEB, and
NIV are all based on eclectic texts.

RESULTS OF THE CRITICAL STUDY
OF THE EVIDENCE

Is the text of the New Testament reliable? Textual
criticism answers with confidence in the affirmative, all
the foregoing information notwithstanding. Several ar-
guments point to such a conclusion:

1) The amount of evidence attesting the text is over-
whelming.

2) Only a small portion of the text, one-eighth, is actu-
ally involved. This amount is greatly reduced if word
order and other comparative trivialities are omitted.
The final amount is one and one-half percent after
the elimination of orthographical errors.

3) The principles utilized in reconstructing the text,
though proved by time through use in the scholarly
world in connection with the classical texts of an-
tiquity, may be subject to modification in the new
discoveries and further developments.

It can be said, without doubt, that no doctrine of
Christianity rests upon a disputed text. The Bible stu-
dent has no cause for alarm nor any reason for apology
relative to the text of his Bible. In view of the fluid state
of textual criticism and the consequent potential for
mistaken implications to be drawn from such a situa-
tion, it is appropriate both to quote the words of the late
Sir Frederic Kenyon and to take them to heart with
confidence:

"It is reassuring at the end to find that the general
result of all this study is to strengthen the proof of the
authenticity of the Scriptures, and our conviction
that we have in our hands, in substantial integrity,
the veritable Word of God."

SIX

BRYAN LIFE

''""*'^s»«^_

^e (^ativitjr

Here is the hinge of history — the hour

Wherefrom the years recede, the years advance-
The night when Love has victory over Power.

A new-born child beneath a mother' s glance,

God the Creator is made manifest.
Born of his creature, flesh of circumstance .

Here, petal- soft against his mother s breast.
He lies who made the sun to be his rose;
Here he who strews the lightnings lies at rest!

O little hands that fold the falling snows!

O baby hands that buoy the nightingale!
How can your fingers sleep in such repose?

And must you, O soft baby feet, re scale
The height of Heaven on the driven nail?

E. Merrill Root
(1895-1973)

a^gB;!ggg»r'g AWBUftJ^g «gg^-'«Kv"^^

(^[Jerry QTristmas

and ^appy IS(ew ^ear!

"The dayspring from on high hath visited us, to
give hght to them that sit in darkness and in the
shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of
peace. "

Luke 1:78b, 79

The painting entitled Holy Family with Elizabeth,
from which this picture was reproduced, is an oil copy
attributed to a pupil of Andrea del Sarto of the Italian
School. This piece of art, which hangs in Rhea House,
was donated to Bryan in 1962, along with twelve pieces

of Italian furniture, by Mrs. Stephen Lesher of Philadel-
phia at the suggestion of her niece, Mrs. D. C. Haynes of
Ft. Pierce, Fla. Andrea del Sarto's original of the Holy
Family with Elizabeth, dated 1528, is displayed in the
Pitti Palace in Florence.

EIGHT

BRYAN LIFE

CAMPUS CALENDAR

SECOND SEMESTER

1978

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY fmDAV

SATURDAY

5 6

Orientation

and
Registration

§Miss
Conle

onary
rence

©Tenn. \«bs.

Classes

Begin

*Dr. Brian Richardson

©King

OMIIIigan

Koinonia

{QTusculum

*Dr. John
Anderson

*Mr. Gary Phillips

.©Emory-

©Covenant

Henry

30
Board o

1 Trustees

IVIeeling
Johnson
Bible

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Div. of
History &
Sac. Sc.

4
©Temple

• •

Rev. Mark Corts

Valentine
Banquet

Lit. & Modern

Languages Division

Lectures

1
Hilltop Players

8:00 8:00 8:00

Koinonia

©Lee

■Alan
Winkler

MARCH

APRIL

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRtDAY

SATURDAY

SPRIN

G VAC

Choir Tour

ATION

14
Choir Concert

Classes
Begin

Exam
Day

17
Div. of
Educ. &
Psychology

Koinonia

Day of
Prayer

6 Jerry
Day

EASTER

BIBLE

#0r

30CTRINE

Charles R. S

;eries

mlth

Engaged
Retr

Couples'
eat

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Symphonic
Band

Div. of
Fine Arts

tBIIIy !

trachan

tPaul

Meier

Athletic
Banquet

KoinoniaJJ.

Bacca- 3D
laureate

Honors
Assembly

Senior
Assembly

Board of
Trustees

MAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

4Sth
Commence-
ment

8
Mini-
mester
Begins

♦1

ASTORS' C

larold Lindsel

ONFERENCI

& (Jay Adai

Mini-
mester
Ends

Summer
School
Begins

* Bryan Bible professors

** Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C.

§ Missionary Conference speakers —

George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilization
Al Piatt, president of Central American Mission

it Pastor of Berean Bible Church, Columbus, Ind.

t Torchbearers, England

t Dallas Seminary professor

♦ Retired editor of Christianity Today

• Dean of Christian Counselling Institute
Q) Intervarsity Basketball games

# Professor of Theology, Grace College

The campus calendar is included here to serve as a prayer
reminder for the second semester and to give our readers a
sample listing of chapel programs and special events. Devotional
chapels are generally held three days a week and a fourth day is
devoted to faculty, class, and committee meetings. Space forbids
the inclusion of all events and the names of all chapel speakers.

/INTER 1977

NINE

taSS^SSSiSaSSSOi^iMSSSS^SHSSSSsSSisaSS

WALKING IN HIS
CRUNCHES

Maureen Hay Read '58, Narvon, Pa., is a housewife and sciioolteacher. Slie recently wrote
tlie dramatic story of fier travels, marriage, children, financial disaster, sudden grief, and
unexpected joy under the title Like a Watered Garden, published by Herald Press. This brief
episode from her life's story was published by Moody Monthly in September 1975 and is
reprinted by permission with copyright in 1975 by Moody Bible Institute.

Maureen Read

W "■>

It was the biggest snow of the
year. When a light rain came and put
a hard crust on top, it was even bet-
ter. I helped James and Elizabeth
into several layers of clothes, half
an hour's work, and out they went
into the gleaming world of winter.
They beat around, making tracks
and sliding pieces of ice over the
shiny surface.

Almost three-year-old Michael,
watching from the inside, wanted to
go too . ' ' Little one , it ' s too slippery .
You're too small to walk on such
crusty hard snow." He didn't un-
derstand at all. He cried and
begged, and I decided he should try
it and learn what "dangerous"
meant.

More layers. Sweater, leggings,
coat, hat, mittens that didn't match
but were dry at least, and boots that
made me puff straining to get them
on. All for five minutes. He
wouldn't last any longer than that.

He must have got on top and slid
half way to the neighbor's house
when he caught on a tree. In a few
minutes I looked out and saw
Elizabeth, who was a little mother
to her brothers, leading Michael by
the hand into the house. He was
roaring.

When I asked how she managed
to get him, she replied calmly and

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BRYAN LIE

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capably, "I just crunched down to
him and took his hand, and he
walked back in my crunches."

Elizabeth was special. She had
everything a mother could want
for a daughter — beauty, superb
health, intelligence, an unusual
sense of humor, and enough mis-
chief to make her human. My hus-
band, Ed, and I often laughed at her
down-to-earth comments. One day
she and James had been discussing a
little friend who was rather over-
weight. James charitably said,
"Well, she can't help she's fat. God
made her that way." To which
Elizabeth replied in her slow con-
traho voice, "God didn't make her
that way. She just ate too much."

I often told Ed that if anything
happened to me, Elizabeth would
hold the family together. She was
that kind of little girl. At four years
she could ice a cake (with much
finger licking) and wash dishes bet-
ter than many older girls.

Several weeks after the crunching
snow, we had unseasonably warm
weather. Following a rainy morn-
ing, the sun came out with a burst of
pre-spring glory, and we all scam-
pered outside for a walk. Elizabeth
seemed tired that afternoon, but re-
fused to rest. After the walk she bus-
ily carried water from the kitchen
sink to make mud pies, with
sidelong glances at me to see if I
objected.

I'm glad I didn't.

Because after a brief illness that
night, Elizabeth was in Heaven. In
all the frenzy of mouth-to-mouth
aid, the flashing lights of the ambu-
lances, oxygen tanks, frantic
prayers, people rushing about,
Jesus came for her and took her
hand and she crunched after Him.

The autopsy report said that the
quick death was due to a massive
viral infection that went im-
mediately into her brain. The numb-
ing effect of shock and the prayer of
hundreds of friends helped us in the
first days. It snowed before the fu-
neral, and the world looked pure and
clean. The white casket and white

WINTER 1977

roses that children laid with her
were a reminder of childish inno-
cence and how God must love to
welcome a small one.
"When we've been there ten

thousand years.
Bright, shining as the sun. ..."

It was wee Michael's voice chim-
ing above everyone else's at the
funeral. We were singing our favor-
ite family hymn, "Amazing Grace,"
and I realized that the song had run
full course now. One of us was
brighter, more shining than she had
ever been before. I recalled Jesus'
prayer in John 17:24: "Father, I will
that they also whom thou hast given
me be with me where I am, that they
may behold my glory. ..."

Beholding His glory. Could our
girl be doing that? Faith said yes,
but in the next weeks and months I
tried to cope with the blackest de-
spair I have ever known. All I could
think of was that beautiful Httle face
sagging and crumbling in the
ground. The sting of death. Would I
see her again?

Just three days before her death, I
had had a conversation with a
neighbor who said, "So there's a
God. Either He's not really God and
He can't prevent trouble and acci-
dents and sorrow, or He is God and
allows these things because He's
mean and sadistic. Those are the
only two alternatives." I told her of
the third possibility, that God in
love can permit something in this
short life span that could enhance
and enrich all eternity. I said it eas-
ily. Now was the test, and I was
failing. My faith seemed to be shat-
tered.

"If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men most
miserable." I knew now what Paul
was talking about in I Cor. 15:19.
Without the resurrection, life has no
meaning.

Lord, I want to believe. I'm just so
lost in this grief. Help me.

And He came — through the
darkness and doubts, as He had
done so many times before.

He came first in a letter from a
dear friend, Mrs. McLeod, who had
lost her own lovely daughter Alice
some years before. She wrote, "I
got up at three this morning and
poured out my heart to God for you
dear people." Thank you. Father,
for the gift of prayer, that it can
reach me here in Pennsylvania all
the way from Wisconsin. For it had
reached me. The bleak despair was
beginning to lift.

Then a letter arrived from Ire-
land. One of my cousins had read
our account of Elizabeth's death
and was so moved by it that she had
accepted Christ into her life. It's
a high price to pay. Lord — but then
You know all about that. You gave
Your Son.

A neighbor stopped in one day
and told me that she and her hus-
band had now started going to
church. I had been praying for her
for the last two years. Was this the
beginning of an answer? Had our
girl touched them in some way?

As a gift from my parents, I flew
to Beirut to visit missionary friends.
There I was able to give personally
the money from Elizabeth's memo-
rial fund to the Lebanon Evangeli-
cal Mission for children's literature.
Perhaps through her death she
might change a httle girl's life or
give eternal values to an Arab boy.
It was up to God. He had taken
Elizabeth, and He was the One who
had promised that "all things work
together for good to them that love
God" (Rom. 8:28).

It was a slow process for me, this
return to peace and hope. There
were no visions, no dramatic
events. I still see her everywhere.
Her little treasures turn up at unex-
pected moments, and memories
crowd each room of the house.
Michael keeps saying, "I wish
Ewizabef come down outa the
sky."

Yet as our son James says, "The
days are getting happier." That's
because Jesus came to me and took
my hand and I'm walking in His
crunches again.

ELEVEN

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NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

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Bradshaw Fary

Larzelere

Steve P. Bradshaw '75, instructor
in psychology; M.Ed, in community
counseling from Georgia State Uni-
versity, where his program included
training as a psychiatric assistant
and a milieu therapist at Peach-
tree-Parkwood Mental Health
Center in Atlanta. He is married to
the former Beth Lonie of Detroit,
who teaches music in Dayton City
School. Mr. Bradshaw succeeds
Miriam Sailers, who has entered
Rosemead Graduate School in
California.

Malcolm I. Fary, assistant profes-
sor of education; B.A. in Bible and
theology from Barrington College,
R.I.; M.S. in elementary education
from East Stroudsburg State Col-
lege in Pennsylvania; doctoral can-
didate at Rutgers University
Graduate School in New
Brunswick, N.J. Mr. Fary was
principal of Brookside School in
Mendham Township, N.J., for the
past eight years. He and his wife,
Lucia, are parents of three children.
Mr. Fary succeeds L. Donald Hill,
who accepted an administrative
position at Chattanooga State
Technical Community College.

Robert E. Larzelere, assistant
professor of psychology; B.A. from
Wabash College; M.S. in psychol-
ogy from Georgia Tech; one year of
graduate study at Columbia Bible
College; Ph.D. candidate with a
major in family studies at Penn State
University. He is a member of
numerous professional organiza-
tions and the recipient of several
professional honors. He and his
wife, Rosalie, have a daughter, Lisa
Michelle, born November 6. Mr.
Larzelere succeeds Dr. Tom Biller,
who is in private practice as a
psychological counselor with of-
fices in Cleveland and Chattanooga.

Whitlow

Wright

Miss J. Deborah Whitlow, instruc-
tor in health and physical education
and director of women's athletics;
B.S. in physical education and sec-
ondary education, Lee College,
Cleveland, Tenn.; M.A., Univer-
sity of Southeastern Louisiana.
Miss Whitlow's appointment is part
of a long-range plan for expanding
the women's program in physical
education and athletics.

David A. Wright '73, assistant
hbrarian; M.S. in library science
from the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville. His wife, Debra, is
employed as the college nurse. Mr.
Wright fills the vacancy created
when Mrs. Rebecca Van Meeveren,
assistant librarian, became director
of library services on the resigna-
tion of Miss Virginia Seguine, who
has joined the staff of the
Campbell-Reese Evangelistic As-
sociation of Canada.

Robert D. Wykstra,

CPA, assistant pro-
fessor of accounting;
B.A. in business
economics from Cal-
vin College, Grand
Rapids; M.B.A. from
Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo. Mr.
Wykstra' s appointment now makes
it possible for the college to offer a
major in accounting. His wife, Eve-
lyn, is an elementary teacher in the
Rhea County school system.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES
Miss Rachel Ross, assistant pro-
fessor of speech, attended a Chris-
tian Arts Seminar in Houston, Tex.
Seminar participants were profes-
sionals from the fields of film, thea-
ter, music, and television, including
Tedd Smith, musician and com-
poser, whose piano concert opened
the session, and Jeanette Clift
George, star of The Hiding Place,
who led workshops in acting, direct-
ing, and drama in the church.

Robert Andrews, dean of men,
was one of three speakers at a con-
ference for singles held recently at
Reach Out Ranch in Chattanooga.
More than 150 young people.

mostly from the Southeast, heard
Mr. Andrews's three messages on
"The Church as an Agent of
Change." The ministry of Reach
Out Ranch was founded in 1970 by
Mrs. Kay Arthur to help young
people to meet problems in their
lives with solutions from God's
Word and to become established in
the Lord.

Robert Larzelere, assistant pro-
fessor of psychology, made a pres-
entadon to the National Council on
Family Relations in San Diego,
Calif., Oct. 12-15. The theme of the
annual meeting was "Values, Mor-
als, Ethics, and the American Fam-
ily." The title of Mr. Larzelere's
presentation, in which he was
joined by two members of the Penn
State University faculty, was
"Family Development and the
Family Life Cycle: An Empirical
Evaluation."

Gary Phillips, instructor in Greek
and Bible, was the speaker for a
youth conference sponsored by the
Knoxville Presbytery of the Pres-
byterian Church (U.S.) on two
October weekends. In four mes-
sages each weekend, Mr. Phillips
addressed between 250 and 300 high
school youth on the theme "God's
Love for Us."

STAFF CHANGES

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Magnussen

Staff changes this summer re-
sulted in several graduates of the
college being returned to the cam-
pus in new roles:

Barbara Howard '73, as assistant
registrar, replacing Mrs. Grace
Smith Ely '75.

Neil Magnussen '77, as admis-
sions counselor, replacing Larry
Puckett '73.

Debra Sterrett '77, as head resi-
dent of Maranatha, replacing Mrs.
Susan Waddell Davis '74.

Tom Varney '77, as director of
Practical Christian Involvement,
replacing Lynn Wheeler '75.

Sterrett Varney

TWELVE

BRYAN LIFE

VAN LIFE

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ALITMNUS OF THE YEAR

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Westgate

Charles Westgate '62. pastor of
the Community Baptist Church.
Montoursville. Pa., was honored as
Alumnus of the Year for 1977 at the
fall alumni homecoming banquet.

This honor recognizes Mr.
Westgate's outstanding perform-
ance in service to Bryan College as
well as his pastoral ministry. He
served a two-year term as president
of the Alumni Association during
the early promotion of the Rudd
Memorial Chapel fund raising, and
this year, with the aid of his wife,
the former Sandra Sorrell "63, he
was the youth director for the sum-
mer Bible conference at Bryan. Mr.
and Mrs. Westgate were field rep-
resentatives for the college for two
years between 1967 and 1969 as stu-
dent recruiters. They have con-
tinued recruiting for Bryan among
the youth in their former pastorate
at the Sale Creek Presbyterian
Church near Dayton as well as in
their present location. Three stu-
dents are currently enrolled from
the Montoursville church.

Mr. Westgate was also recog-
nized for listing in the 1971 edition
of Outstanding Young Men of America.

STALEY LECTURES

"The Biblical View of Marriage
and the Family" " was the theme of
the annual Staley Distinguished
Christian Scholar Lectures deliv-
ered by Dr. Kenneth O. Gangel,
president of Miami (Fla.) Christian
College. As in the past, the five lec-
tures this year attracted large
attendance and interest from the
college community. Because of this
consistent pattern of success,
Bryan was selected as one of ten
colleges out of more than two
hundred participating institutions to
have its annual program endowed.
This endowment was in the form of

a gift of 1,000 shares of Reynolds
Securities stock from the Staley
Foundation, established by the late
Thomas F. Staley to perpetuate an
evangelical witness among college
students. Mr. Staley, who was a na-
tive of Bristol, Tenn., and a found-
ing partner of Reynolds Securities,
died on September 13, 1977.

SCHAEFFER FILMS

The ten-film ?,mQ?. How Should We
Then Live? featuring Dr. Francis
Schaeffer, of L'Abri Fellowship in
Switzerland, was shown at the an-
nual faculty retreat as a part of the
in-service training on the integra-
tion of faith, learning, and life.

Dr. R. Allen Killen, a personal
friend of Dr. Schaeffer, was the re-
source person for the discussion
periods after each section of films.
A member of the Bryan faculty from
1969-71 and of Reformed Theologi-
cal Seminary faculty, Jackson,
Miss., from 1971-77, Dr. Killen has
now retired from full-time teaching
but continues on a part-time basis at
Reformed Seminary and also
at John Wesley Biblical School in
Jackson.

The college has purchased the
Schaeffer films under the sponsor-
ship of the Bryan Women's Aux-
iliary, and other showings have
been scheduled for the students and
visiting friends.

FALL ENROLLMENT REPORT

Total head count 548

Full-time students 508

Part-time students 40

Full-time equivalent 521

States Represented 36

(The first 10 states)

Tennessee (incl. part-time) 114
Florida 70

Georgia 41

Michigan 35

North Carolina 32

Virginia 24

Illinois 23

Pennsylvania 21

Ohio 17

New York 17

Foreign countries (34 students) 19

fflLLTOP PLAYERS

The Hilltop Players presented
their fall production. The Importance
of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, on
November 10-12, under the direc-
tion of Miss Rachel Ross, assistant
professor of speech. Assistant di-

NEW TRUSTEE OFFICERS

Barth Hay McKinney

Dr. Ian M. Hay '50, general direc-
tor of the Sudan Interior Mission,
was elected chairman of the Bryan
Board of Trustees at the regular fall
session. James Barth '57, partner in
Barth Farms, poultry producers of
Poland, Ohio, was elected vice
chairman: and Morris Brodsky,
owner of Scripture Truth Book Co.,
is the new secretary (not pictured).

Dr. Hay, a member of the board
since 1969, succeeds Dr. J. Wesley
McKinney, a Memphis ophthal-
mologist, who held the chairman's
post for eight years and will continue
to serve on the board. Mr. Barth
succeeds Dr. Hay as vice chairman;
and Mr. Brodsky follows Edward J.
Robeson, III, of Chester, S.C., as
secretary.

In other actions, the board regret-
fully announced a six percent in-
crease in cost for 1978-79, a decision
deemed necessary to offset current
inflation. Cost comparisons show
that Bryan's total charges still re-
main below those of most other
accredited private colleges.

The board also discussed plans
for a long-range, four-phase expan-
sion of the gymnasium and consid-
ered the need for expanding the li-
brary and the food service facilities.
A budget of $2,245,000 was ap-
proved for the 1977-78 fiscal year.

Nine members of the National
Advisory Council met for an infor-
mation session just prior to the trus-
tees" meeting and then shared in an
advisory capacity on committees of
the board.

rector was Cliff Hall, a junior from
Say re. Pa.

The ten-student cast successfully
entertained the Bryan audience
with the' humorous rendition of
Wilde's sadre on social graces in the
Victorian period.

WINTER 1977

THIRTEEN

BiiYAf

BFTYA

MISSIONARY CONFERENCE

January 4-6, 1978

featuring
GEORGE VERWER,

Bromley, Kent, England,
founder and director of
Operation Mobilization

together with

DR. AL PLATT,

president.

Central American Mission,

Dallas, Texas

Piatt

Olson

and including 25 missionaries representing various
fields and several world-mission agencies, presenting
workshops, displays, and films.

Special inusic by
CHUCK OLSON

of Concert Ministries Association
Iowa City, Iowa

SOCCER CHAMPS TAKE THIRD NCCAA TITLE

The soccer Lions won the National
Christian College Athletic Association
title for the third year in succession by
defeating Grace College of Indiana 2-1,
Barrington of Rhode Island 2-1, and
Eastern College of Pennsylvania 1-0 in
the tournament held at Covenant College
in Chattanooga on November 10-12.
Three consecutive championships placed
Bryan in an unprecedented position of
honor in NCCAA annals.

The soccer team completed its
season with a 12-3-1 record —
second best in the school's fifteen
years of soccer history. Bryan won
the Tennessee Temple Invitational
in September and advanced to the
NCCAA tournament with a 1-0 win
over Central Wesleyan in the
NCCAA District 5 playoff game on
November 5.

The homecoming win over
Sewanee (4-1) marked the 50th
coaching victory for John Reeser
since he came to Bryan in 1972.

Luke Germann, senior from
Nashville, Tenn., advanced to all-
time top scorer early in the season,
showing a career total of 43 goals, of
which 17 were made in 1977. He was
also voted MVP at the NCCAA
tournament.

Brian Chapman, junior of Pom-
pano, Fla., is the second leading
goal producer in the current edition
of the Lions with 12 goals this year.

Rocky DaCosta, sophomore of
Bermuda, made two crucial goals
— the score that won the District 5

FOURTEEN

playoff and the single score in the
tournament finals.

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL

The Lionettes carried away the
second place trophy in the AIAW
State Volleyball Tournament at Mil-
ligan College on November 12, but
succumbed to the superior strength
of the University of Tennessee at
Martin in the first year of competi-
don in this division.

Defending their 1976 Tennessee
State Championship of non-AIAW
competition, the women's vol-
leyball team ended the season with
an outstanding 32-10-1 record. In-
cluded in this mark was a big victory
over the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga — a first for a women's
team at Bryan. The girls also suc-
cessfully defended their SCAC
championship in Dayton in late Oc-
tober and finished second in both
the Milligan and Covenant Invita-
tional tournaments.

The Lionettes were coached by
Deborah Whitlow, the new wom-
en's physical education teacher and
coach, and Don Hewlett, senior
from Birmingham, Ala. The vol-
leyball team's record over the last
two seasons is 52-14-1.

CROSS COUNTRY

The cross-country team con-
cluded its regular season with a
3-5 dual record, which reflects the
blow to the team effort when All-
American Eric Clarke, Miami
Springs, Fla., injured a leg during

the second week of the season and
was out the rest of the year. .

Mike Wood, Jacksonville, Fla.,
took over as top runner on the squad
and set a course record in a meet
against Tennessee Temple in Chat-
tanooga in addition to taking first
place in the Carson-Newman Invi-
tational and fourth place in the
N.A.I. A. District 24 meet also at
Carson-Newman.

The highlights of the season were
a third-place finish out of six teams
in the annual Bryan Invitational dur-
ing homecoming, a second-place
finish in the SCAC, and fourth place
in the N.A.I. A. District 24 meet.

MEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

1977-78

DATE

OPPONENT

Nov.

Johnson Bible

Trevecca

Grace Tournament

Dec.

•Delta State

King

Emory and Henry

•Bethel

Jan.

•Tenn. Wesleyan

•King

Bethel

•Milligan

•Tusculum

•Covenant

Lee

•Emory and Henry

•Johnson Bible

Feb.

•Tenn. Temple

Tenn. Wesleyan

Tenn. Temple

Milligan

Tusculum

Covenant

•Lee

•Trevecca

Feb.

SCAC Tournament

Mar.

SCAC Tournament

Mar.

16-18

NCCAA Tournament
•Home Games

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

SCHEDULE 1977-78

DATE

OPPONENT

Nov.

•Georgia Tech

Tenn. Wesleyan

Roane State

Dec.

2-3

•Bryan Holiday Classic
(Covenant-Temple,
Bryan-Messiah)

•Milligan

Jan.

•Tenn. Wesleyan

Univ. of Ala./Huntsville

Vanderbilt

Georgia Tech

•Covenant

Lee

Maryville

•Johnson Bible College

Feb.

•Tenn. Temple

Johnson Bible

Tenn. Temple

Milligan

•Maryville

Covenant

•Lee

•Vanderbilt

SCAC Semi-Final Playoffs

SCAC Championship Game

Mar.

2-4

TCWSF State Tournament
•Home Games

BRYAN LIFE

I LIKE TO HELP

BRYAN STUDENTS!

Mrs. Mary Lee Kenyon

Ixepresenting many friends who contribute to
Bryan's special scholarship funds, Mrs. Mary Lee
Kenyon, of Miami, Fla., likes to visit Bryan. She is
interested in meeting the students and in having fellovi'-
ship with alumni, many of whom are schoolteachers
like herself. Because of her interest in Bryan, she was
made an honorary alumna in 1971.

Although Miami has been home for Mrs. Kenyon
ever since she was married to David Kenyon, who
worked as an advertising manager for the Miami News,
she continues to return to her hometown of Chat-
tanooga in the summer. She has attended most of the
Bryan summer Bible conferences held annually since
1964.

It was Mrs. Kenyon's sister. Miss Julia Nichols, who
first became acquainted with Bryan College over thirty
years ago. She encouraged Clyde Simmons to attend
Bryan in 1942 and became interested in providing
scholarship aid for him and several other students
through the years. After completing his degree at Bryan
in 1949 following an interruption for military service,
Clyde began a teaching career under Miss Nichols while
she was principal at the G. Russell Brown Elementary
School in Chattanooga. Miss Nichols died in 1963 after
giving more than forty years to the teaching profession,
including her service as principal in three Chattanooga
schools. She would have been gratified to know that
Clyde Simmons completed not only the master's degree
but also the doctor of education degree and is now
serving as principal of the Oak Grove School in Chat-
tanooga.

Following Miss Nichols's death, Mrs. Kenyon
contributed to Bryan for a memorial in her sister's
honor. This memorial was identified by naming the
lounge in the Huston Hall dormitory for women as the
Julia Nichols Lounge, where her picture continues to
grace the room.

Mrs. Kenyon began her own career as a teacher also
in Chattanooga and then taught for a few years in
Knoxville until she was married and moved to Miami.
She completed her bachelor's degree at the University
of Miami and returned to Tennessee for her master's
degree at George Peabody College. While her husband
worked for the Miami News, Mrs. Kenyon taught to
accrue a total of thirty-five years in the teaching profes-

sion before she retired recently. She continues to make
her winter home in Miami; but since her husband's
death over twenty years ago, she has returned to Chat-
tanooga each summer.

'T look back on those years of teaching as being my
most happy years," Mrs. Kenyon stated. "They were
very satisfying and enjoyable to me. Very often I meet
former students, and it gives me great pleasure to see
their development and to know how they have turned
out to be outstanding in their Hne of work."

Mrs. Kenyon is active in Miami as a Sunday school
teacher in the adult department of the United Methodist
Church and in the Woman's Club and Garden Club of
Miami. She belongs to the Retired Teachers' Associa-
tion, having been an active participant in the National
Education Association, as well as in the state and local
organizations. She is also an enthusiastic traveler, who
took numerous trips in the United States with her sister.
More recently she has taken two tours around the world,
besides several trips to Europe; and nearly every winter
she takes a Caribbean cruise. This past summer she
joined the Bryan tour group to the Holy Land and
Europe with Dr. Bartlett and Dr. Mercer.

' Tt was my sister' s interest in Bryan that first brought
me to visit the college and become acquainted with
some of the professors and students, and I knew that my
sister would be pleased that a memorial for her be made
to help other students. I have seen so many of the
alumni become useful citizens and faithful Christian
workers that I realize more and more what a fine Chris-
tian college Bryan is. Now I consider it a privilege and a
joy to continue to help provide scholarship support
because I know that everything I give to Bryan is put to
good use. I have come to know several of the adminis-
trators personally, and I have confidence in them and
reahze that all the faculty and staff are working together
for the welfare of the young people."

Anyone who is interested in making scholarship con-
tributions or establishing loan funds to assist worthy
students may write to:

Dr. John Bartlett
Vice President
Bryan College
Dayton, TN 37321

WINTER 1977

FIFTEEN

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BRYAN INVITATIONAL PASTORS'
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featuring

DR. HAROLD LINDSELL

Retiring editor of Christianity Today

Author of The Battle for the Bible

and

DR. JAY ADAMS

Adams

Author and dean of the Institute of Pastoral Studies

of the Christian Counseling and Educational

Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

together with

DR. IRVING JENSEN

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Professor of Bible, Bryan College

Author of Inductive Bible Study and

fifty study guides covering the entire Bible

and

OTHER BRYAN FACULTY MEMBERS

Tuesday Supper through Friday Breakfast,
May 9-12, 1978

This conference is intended to be a tangible "thank you" for
pastors and churches which have shown themselves friends of the
college and to provide an opportunity for other interested pastors to
become acquainted with Bryan. The only expense to participants will
be the cost of transportation.

The program is being planned to provide experiences of inspiration
and learning in areas important to the pastoral ministry. A variety of
techniques will be used in these activities — general sessions, sem-
inars, discussion groups, and times of informal fellowship.

* Housing in air-conditioned modern dormitories
First-class food service
* Special program for wives

Program schedule available in February
Inquiries invited

.Address: PASTORS' CONFERENCE

Bryan College .^^~TV,<

Dayton, TN 37321

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BRYAN
LIFE

MAGAZINE

Editorial Office: William Jen-
nings Bryan College, Dayton,
Tennessee 37321, (615) 775-
2041

Editor-in-Chief: Theodore C.
Mercer

Consulting Editors: John
Bartlett, Rebecca Peck, Charles
Robinson.

Copy Editors: Alice Mercer and
Rebecca Peck

Circulation Manager: Shirley
Holmes

BRYAN LIFE is published four
times annually by William Jen-
nings Bryan College, Dayton,
Tennessee. Second class post-
age paid at Dayton, Tennessee,
and additional mailing offices.

William Jennings Bryan College

Dayton, Tennessee

POSTMASTERS: Send form 3579 to
Bryan College, Dayton, TN 37321.

FRONT COVER PHOTO:

Senior education major and
student-teacher Dorothy John-
son of Athens, Tenn., checks a
microscope in the biology lab
with her high-school critic
teacher, Phil Ashworth '66, and
her Bryan education professor.
Dr. Paul Biggers, observing in
the background.

Photo by Cunnyngham Studio.

Volume 3

SPRING 1978

Number 3

COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY: A TWO-WAY STREET: A

Bryan administrator and teacher, who is also chairman of the local
county school board, takes a look at one aspect of college and
community relationships. By Dr. May me Sheddan Bedford.

AFRICA— AN EMERGING CONTINENT: A mission representa-
tive describes an Africa in ferment, which makes it a fruitful field
for the gospel. By William T. Harding IIL

THE PARENTS GOD DESIRES: A psychology professor writes
perceptively about the responsibilities and resources of parents,
with a background study of Jesus' parents. By Robert E. Larze-

lere.

THE LAW AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: A PERSPECTIVE: The

author focuses on contemporary legal developments which have
the effect of violating government's supposed neutrality in religion
and fostering a secular humanism which is fast becoming an estab-
lishment of religion in itself. By John C. Stophel.

WHAT IF OUR BABY DIES? Fac€d suddenly with the stark possi-
bility of the death of a second child, a professor and his wife find
prevailing prayer, in a community of praying friends, their only
recourse. By Malcolm I. Fary.

CAMPUS REVIEW: A cross section of news and events about the
college community.

LIVING MEMORIALS: An investment opportunity which be-
comes a continuing memorial.

PASTORS' CONFERENCE

SUMMER BIBLE CONFERENCE

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If one word were chosen as a
theme for this issue, perhaps "rela-
tionships" would be that word. Mr.
Fary's article focuses on those most
personal relationships within the
immediate family. Mr. Larzelere
develops parental relationships in
another dimension, with an imaginative touch in dealing with Jesus' par-
ents and some practical directions for contemporary parents.

Mr. Stophel' s article deals with relationships to government, especially
in respect to religious freedom; and Mr. Harding's report on Africa today
pinpoints the Christian's worldwide relationship in the body of Christ and
his responsibility to carry the gospel everywhere.

The cover picture and Dr. Bedford's column deal with college-
community relationship, the soil in which the college grows.

All of these exemplify John Donne's oft-quoted observafion on life: "No
man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, apart
of the main. ..."

Theodore C. Mercer

TWO

BRYAN LIFE

Mayme Sheddan
Bedford is a prod-
uct of the public
sctiools of Rfiea
County and three
Tennessee higher
educational Insti-
tutions — Bryan (B.S, '65), the Univer-
sity of Chattanooga (M.Ed. '68), and the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
(Ed.D. '76). This background, including
the fact that she has been a member of
the Rhea County school board since
1972. peculiarly fits her to evaluate the
college-community relationship re-
flected in the Bryan student-teaching
program in the area's public schools.

A he Bryan College student-
teaching program, through contrac-
tual agreements with the Rhea
County Department of Education,
the Dayton City School, and other
school systems in surrounding
counties, has been one of the most
vital connections between Bryan
College and the community-at-large
for many years now. This coopera-
tive program has lasted because
both the college and the community
need the program.

COMMLNiTY Cooperation

Cooperation of the school sys-
tems was a key element in the estab-
lishment of a teacher-education
program at Bryan in the fifties, and
that same spirit of cooperation has
continued regardless of changes in
superintendents and boards of edu-
cation. The student-teaching ex-
perience under the supervision of a
professional teacher has enabled
Bryan College to recommend
teacher certification for its students
and has made it possible for them to
begin their careers in education at
various places throughout the
United States and in mission
schools outside the United States.

When there was a shortage of
qualified teachers in Rhea County
and surrounding areas. Bryan Col-
lege, through the teacher-education
program and the cooperation of the
school systems, supplied the needs
of the schools with certified person-
nel. Even today when there is no
longer a shortage, eighty alumni of
the college are employed as

COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY:
A Two-Way Street

by Mayme Sheddan Bedford

teachers in the school systems of
the county.

The student-teaching program
also allows the school to have
another person in the classroom to
assist the teacher with the activities,
and in the interaction with the stu-
dent teacher, the professional
teacher grows personally in the
acceptance of responsibility to as-
sist young educators in their profes-
sional growth.

Community Enrichment

The life of the community has
been enriched through the talents of
college students who have been at-
tracted to Bryan because of the
teacher-education program. These
students from many parts of the
world have contributed through
their active participation in
churches and through employment
in the various industries in the area.
Since Bryan is an accredited col-
lege, the teacher-education pro-
gram is especially attractive to
graduates of Bible colleges and
other Christian colleges that do not
have such programs. Many
graduates of the college have
purchased homes and settled in the
local area, where they have as-
sumed the responsibilities of being
good citizens.

Community Values

As a native of Rhea County and in
my role as the present chairman of
the Rhea County School Board with
five years of service on the board. I
want to express my viewpoint on
the relationship of Bryan College
and the community as it exists
through the cooperative student-
teaching program. The comments
that follow will reflect some of the
values and attitudes that I believe
the community and/or school per-
sonnel hold.

"GIVE US OUR
MONEY'S WORTH"

A relationship needs to be mutu-
ally beneficial if it is to last; perhaps
this is true in all contractual agree-
ments, but it is especially true in
East Tennessee, where there is a

long history of "'trading" and "get-
ting our money's worth." It is my
belief that the community has re-
ceived fair value in the student-
teaching agreement because of the
contribution that hundreds of young
student teachers have made to the
lives of boys and girls in the Rhea
County elementary and secondary
schools. Additionally, the eighty
Bryan College alumni who are
employed in the county and city
school systems as professional
teachers are appreciated for their
contribution to the quality of educa-
Uon offered in this county. These
eighty teachers represent approxi-
mately forty percent of the total
number of teachers in the county
and city systems. Because of the
desire for a balanced mix of
teachers from a variety of colleges,
there is some feeling within the
Rhea County School Board that this
is a high percentage of teachers
from one college; it is recognized,
however, that many of the teachers
who received their education at
Bryan have received master's de-
grees or have taken additional
courses at other institutions, and
this is seen as a favorable develop-
ment.

"LOVE OUR CHILDREN"

A special area in which we want
"our money's worth" is in the kind
of treatment our children receive.
We want our children treated right,
and we want teachers to "love and
understand our children." We want
them to understand the heritage of
our children and to appreciate the
culture of this part of the country,
and we want the teachers to show
love in a number of ways. Among
the more important ways for
teachers to show love are the fol-
lowing: 1) adequacy in preparation
of subject matter, 2) careful atten-
tion to varied and interesting
methods of teaching the subject, 3)
firmness and fairness in dealing with
our children in all phases of the
teaching-learning process, and 4)

(Continued on page 5)

SPRING 1978

THREE

Africa

An Emerging Continent

by William T. Harding III

AFRICA — how does one grapple with a continent
three times the size of the United States of America,
with a population of 350 million, divided into over 50
independent sovereign nations? Forty-three of these
nations came into independency during the 1960's,
known as the decade of national birth across Africa.

When I picture this mighty continent, I see it shaped
somewhat like a huge, chunky question mark. And in a
very real sense it is the questioning continent, a conti-
nent asking boldly, "Which way for us in the future?"

I see today's Africa from several dimensions:

1. An awakening continent. Like a giant lying dor-
mant and sleepy for centuries, the continent is begin-
ning to arouse itself, to stir with a conscious awareness
of its place in the world of nations. It is flexing its
muscles and shouting from every corner, "We are here.
You had better recognize us. We're to be reckoned
with."

2. A searching continent. The late Byang Kato, one of
Africa's most articulate evangelical spokesmen, said,
"The primary thing in Africa today is a search for
identity. The African has been exploited and oppressed
over the years, and he is asking to be accepted as a
first-class human being. He is saying, 'We are some-
body. We count."

3. A seething continent. There is a seething in the
political arena of its many nations. There is the constant
threat of new political ideologies producing revolution.
Ethiopia is an example of a radical change to a leftist-
oriented government in the past few years. There is
much emphasis on "African Socialism" because Afri-
can capitalism has become a real curse in the continent
by continuing to widen the gap between the "haves"
and the "have-nots." There is interest in Mao and
Lenin. Many Africans go to communist countries for
continuing education.

Religiously, there is a turbulent scene as well. Islam
is exerting an increased influence from the north, sup-
ported by the petro dollar. Lay evangelists are being
trained in Cairo, Egypt, as propagators of the Islamic
faith throughout the continent. The World Council of
Churches is active on the scene, seeking to control the
ministries of religious affairs in many nations and offer-
ing attractive scholarships to bright African students to
train in liberal seminaries and universities. The growth
of local independent religious sects, along with the
surge of cult groups from all over the world, makes for
constant flux in the religious scene.

4. A sensitive continent. Africa's nations are particu-
larly sensitive to any dominant presence of a foreign

group. Anything that smacks of a colonialistic or pater-
nalistic attitude is not long tolerated. The day of the
"Big White Father" is gone forever. Africa is culturally
sensitive. The issue of cultural revolution is very much
alive. There is a strong movement that Africans should
be authentic and go back to the roots of their existence
and find the connection with their ancestors. This in-
volves secret oaths, demon fetishes, and the pouring of
libations to ancestors in many places. This surge of
cultural authenticity is creating very real pressures for
Christians who have convictions about such practices.
Many have suffered and died for their faith, as we have
seen in the Chad, some being buried alive.

5. A youthful continent. Sixty percent of Africa's
population is 25 years of age and under. The student
world is bulging. The students are bright, inquiring
young people. Beautiful, spacious universities are
emerging everywhere. j

6. A continent of swinging doors. I like this concept.
Some doors have swung closed to the presence of mis-
sionaries as we have seen in Libya, Somalia, and
Mauritania; but many are swinging with a great open-
ness. Doors once open are now closed, and doors once
closed are now open. God controls the swinging doors.
This fact should override the closed-door syndrome,
which seems to be so infectious today. The door of
Ethiopia closed when Italy invaded the land in 1935 , but
the doors swung wide open again when Emperor Haile
Selassie returned to his throne from exile in 1942 and
issued an invitation for missionaries to return. A similar
experience occurred in the Sudan when missionaries
were expelled in 1963. For ten years the door was
closed. Now the door is open again with significant
opportunities. Nigeria, during her civil war period, is
another example. Could the door of Somalia, now
closed, soon be open again with a recent change in
attitude toward the West?

7. A responsive continent. The Christian growth in
Africa, not in all parts, has been phenomenal. In many
areas the Christian population is doubling every four or
five years. Some growth figures are exaggerated, but
there is no doubt that it is harvest time in Africa. In the
Sudan Interior Mission field of West Africa, nearly
1,400 congregations have come into being as the
Evangelical Church of West Africa. They are them-
selves supporting 1 27 missionary couples to other tribes
and cultures. The 2,300 congregations of Ethiopia are
formed into the Word of Life Churches with unprec-
edented evangelical outreach. In the last four months of
1976, over 20,000 turned to Christ through churches

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BRYAN LIFE

Darwin Neddo "54. Bryan alumnus and missionary to France
under Greater Europe Mission, is shown talking with students
at his display, which was one of 25 exhibits at the missions
conference.

MISSIONS CONFERENCE

The conference on missions opening the second
semester attracted 48 missionaries representing 25
mission agencies. Thirteen of the missionaries are
parents of current Bryan students. The three-day con-
ference featured 16 workshops, 24 "Meet-the-
Missionan' ' sessions, and seven general sessions,
besides informal times of fellowship around the mis-
sionary exhibits. Five of the general sessions featured
the five major continents from the perspective of mis-
sions. Bill Harding' s presentation on Africa was
selected for inclusion in this issue.

mobilized into saturation evangelism outreach. It is a
great day in Africa for personal, mass, and media
evangelism. People will listen.

8. \ continent of opportunity and need. In the midst
of the unrest of social upheaval and political turbulence.
along with rapid change affecting people's ties with the
past, there is a fresh awareness and sensitivity to their
need. There is a great openness. Even though mission-
ary ministry is long-standing and much has been ac-
complished, numerically there are more unreached
people today than 85 years ago when SIM began.

There are opportunities to be in partnership with the
church, to serve in Bible schools. Christian education,
evangelism, and other areas where the church is in short
supply. New. unreached frontiers beckon us in the
southern Sudan, among displaced Somalias in northern
Kenya, to unevangelized tribes in Nigeria and Ghana.
and with new thrust to the Moslem world in Africa.
Governments are asking that Bible be taught in their
school curriculum. Rural development programs call
for committed people as agriculturalists, builders, en-
gineers, and technicians. Many opportunities are there
in media and medicine as well.

The hurdles are tough and high, but it is not a day to
slow our pace. God is asking us to have a courageous
and daring faith and to be available and faithful to Him
until the job is done.

William T. Harding III is
Sudan Interior Mission s
campus representative in the
U.S.A. He served for eleven
years with SIM in Ethiopia,
where he worked with the
Youth Center in Addis Ababa
and with the fast-growing
Wallamo church in southern
Ethiopia. He is a native of
Charlotte, N.C., and was
graduated from Columbia
Bible College with a B.A. in
Biblical Education. Before
going to Africa, he served for
three years in pastorates in
Florida and South Carolina.
He and Elaine have five chil-
dren and make their home in
Charlotte, N.C.

Bill Harding

The platform party shares with the audience in listening to
special music by a brass ensemble at the missions conference in
the Rudd Chapel.

(Continued from page 3)

opening up new vistas for our children. Many parents
have expressed to me personally that teachers who
have graduated from Bryan show a special concern for
our children in and beyond the classroom.
"DON'T LEAVE US"
If a student teacher is recommended by the supervis-
ing teacher for permanent employment as a teacher in
the Rhea County School system, the superintendent of
schools is interested in determining the prospects of
that teacher's staying with the county for more than one
year. "Don't learn on us and leave us after one year."
The community is probably contributing more to the
teacher than the teacher is to the community during the
first year of teaching. .A full-time teacher responsible
for an entire classroom learns a great deal during the
first year of teaching, and the teacher is able to make a
much more valuable contribution to the education of
our children during the second year.

Conclusion

Whether I look at the student-teaching program
through the eyes of an administrator-educator at Bryan
College or through the eyes of a school board chairman,
it seems evident that Bryan College and the community
need each other. The relationship is mutually benefi-
cial, and for this reason it has had that lasting quality.

SPRING 1978

FIVE

Robert E. Larzelere, assistant professor
of psychology, has specialized in family
studies at Penn State University, where he
is a doctoral candidate. His article has
special meaning for him and his wife,
Rosalie, as their first child, a daughter,
Lisa Michelle, was born on November 6,
1977.

THE PARENTS GOD DESIRES

hat kind of parents did God
select for His own Son? What con-
siderations might have influenced
the Father's selection of Jesus'
childhood caretakers? The major
glimpse of that parent-Child rela-
tionship is found in Luke 2:41-51.
Do we discover that Jesus had per-
fect parents?

Using your imagination with me,
let's look at that story. We can pic-
ture Joseph and Mary beginning
their trip home from Jerusalem in
the post-Passover rush-hour traffic.
At some early point in the journey,
they realized that Jesus had become
separated from them. What should
they do? Where might He be? They
peered in each direction as the
crowd moved them along. No sign
of Him! Well, they certainly
couldn't fight these crowds and go
back fowar^i Jerusalem. Besides, He
was probably somewhere near. And
if they did locate Him back toward
Jerusalem, they would find the traf-
fic even worse. Better to go on. He
was probably with his cousins or
one of the other friends and rela-
tives going toward Nazareth. After
all, He was a very responsible boy
for being just twelve. They asked a
few people during the day if they

by Robert E. Larzelere

had seen Him — a twelve-year-old
boy, five feet tall, dark hair, and
wearing a dark red tunic. No one
had seen Him.

Only after a full day's travel did
they begin searching for Him seri-
ously. They went through all the
inns located about a day's journey
from Jerusalem. No, He wasn't
with his uncle's family, nor had they
seen Him. Mary and Joseph heard
similar responses from all the
friends and relatives they found. By
this time they had exhausted all the
likely possibilities. Still no one had
seen Him.

So they began the long trip back
to Jerusalem. We might imagine
how they felt. They may have been
in a hurry to get back to Nazareth.
Now they would lose at least
another two days. But that was the
least of their worries. Where could
Jesus be? They may have felt like
failures as parents! Could God for-
give them for such negligence?

They didn't let a single group of
travelers pass by without asking
whether anyone had seen Him. Still
no clue.

As soon as they got to Jerusalem
that evening, they began revisiting

their favorite shops in the city
Surely Jesus would have been by
some of them in the past two days
But again, no one had seen Him
After a restless night, they begar
early in the morning to return to al
the places Jesus knew about. They
also looked where young boys o1
His age played.

How discouraged Mary anc
Joseph must have been that nexi
evening! After praying together
about Him, Joseph had an idea,
They agreed to go through the entire
city systematically the next day
searching for Him. They followed
this new plan persistently, despite
becoming more and more disheart-|
ened.

Finally, in sheer desperation
they went to the temple to pour oui
their hearts to God, or perhaps tc
offer a sacrifice for their sin of negli-|
gence. And there He was! What re-
lief!

What can we learn from this*;
What kind of parents were Mary
and Joseph? First, we find that the>
had made a poor decision. They de-
cided to travel on rather than to turn
around immediately and look foi
Him. Furthermore, they stuck with

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heir decision for an entire day, de-
pite finding no sign of Him. Sec-
mdly, they really didn't know their
on. If they had really known Him,
hey would have known where to
3ok for Him. They would have
nown what would interest Him.
lisfirst words were, "Why is it that
ou were looking for Me? Did you
lOt know that I had to be in My
■ather's house?" In other words.
Why did you look all over for Me?
)idn"t you know that I'd be here in
he temple? Don't you know what
iterests me?"

No, Jesus' parents were not per-
;ct. That realization is a comfort to
le as a parent in these days, when
arental decisions are often more
ifficult and children are sometimes
arder to understand. Max Lerner
ays of American parents today.
In no other culture has there been
o pervasive a cultural anxiety
bout the rearing of children. ' ' ' The
lost widely used textbook in parent
ducation concludes that parents
aday have more responsibility for
leir children but less influence, as a
ssult of social changes during this
entury. Rearing children to be like
heir parents is no longer good
nough: children are expected to
ecome superior to their parents,
'arents are judged by higher stan-
ards today. The author E. E.
-eMasters recalls that his grand-
arents had one son that ran away
rom home for 10 years at age 14.
'^et no one called this grand-
mother and grandfather bad par-
nts. After all, their other 14 chil-
ren all seemed to be reasonably
ontented! The community simply
;lt that some boys would be rest-
:ss and run away regardless of how
dequate their parents were.
.eMasters also relates a similar
urrent family situation, in which a
hild-guidance clinic informed the
arents that boys do not run away
rom good parents. He notes that
ontemporary parents are more
kely to be judged by professionals,
/hereas parents previously were
valuated primarily by other par-
nts.-

Yet parents have less authority to
arry out their additional responsi-
bility. The mass media and the
outh culture have especially cut

into parental influence over chil-
dren. Both of these social changes
have resulted from technology and
urbanization. Producers of movies
and television and radio programs
usually seem unconcerned about
whether they support parental val-
ues. They promote what sells, with
little regard for whether that helps
or hinders parents. The teenage
subculture also has an influence on
adolescents that many parents find
difficult to deal with.

There seems to be some indica-
tion that child-rearing experts have
imposed unrealistic recommenda-
tions on parents. At least two major
research studies reported difficulty
in locating parents who were both
high in parental love and highly
permissive. One noted that most
highly permissive parents appeared
to neglect their children rather than
to be motivated by concern for
them. She concludes that authorita-
tive parents, who combined a high
level of parental love with a low
level of permissiveness, generally
had the most well-adjusted chil-
dren.^ Dr. Spock has reportedly
shifted his recommendations in the
same direction, moving away from
his earlier emphasis on permissive-
ness.

LeMasters concludes that "par-
ents have not really derived much
help or encouragement from the be-
havioral sciences. On the contrary
. . . fathers and mothers have been
left feeling more confused, more
guilty, and more inadequate by the
incomplete and often contradictory
findings of the above disciplines."''

How different is our child-rearing
Expert, whose yoke is easy and
whose burden is light! Not minimiz-
ing our responsibility as parents. He
considers it a shared responsibility
with our children. Just as we are not
robots of our heavenly Father,
neither are our children puppets
moved only by parental puppet
strings. And what resources He
gives (and what a Resource He is!)
to help parents with this responsibil-
ity! But He does not expect perfect
parental decisions or perfect paren-
tal understanding. The parents of
His own Son made imperfect judg-
ments and understood their Boy
imperfectly.

But we should not focus on
Joseph and Mary's parental
shortcomings alone. Elsewhere in
Scripture we discover that they
both had to decide between the
Lord's will and their relationship
with each other. Mary was be-
trothed when the angel appeared to
her. She would have been unsure of
Joseph's reaction to her pregnancy.
But she chose the Lord's will re-
gardless of the effect on their en-
gagement. Joseph, when he learned
of all this, determined to follow the
Scripture in handling such a case,
even though he personally loved
Mary. He went ahead with the mar-
riage plans only after He knew that
that was the Lord's will. Both Mary
and Joseph had their priorities
right — commitment to the Lord first
and then to their marriage and fam-
ily.

Although our Lord is concerned
about our parental decisions and
how well we understand our chil-
dren. His major interest is some-
thing else. He longs for the proper
place in our lives. And this is true
during dating and courtship as well
as in marriage and parenthood.

God chose imperfect parents for
His Son, but parents who would put
Him first.

Some of this article is based on a lecture by Mr.

James M. Hatch of Columbia Bible College.

' Max Lerner, America as Civilization (New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1957). p. 562.

- E. E. LeMasters. Parents in Modern America
(Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press).

' D. Baumrind, "Current Patterns of Parental Au-
thority," Developmental Psychology Monograph,
1971, Vol. 4 (L Part 2). G. Watson. "Some
Personality Differences in Children Related to
Strict or Permissive Parental Discipline, "Vour-
nal of Psychology. 1957, Vol. 44. pp. 227-249.

■* LeMasters, p. 33.

Some helpful books for Christian
parents:

Help, I'm a Parent, Bruce Narra-

more, Zondervan Publishing

House, 1972.
How to Really Love Your Child, D.

Ross Campbell, Victor Books,

1977.
Dare to Discipline. James Dobson,

Tyndaie House Publishers,

1970.
Hide or Seek, James Dobson, Re-

vell, 1974.

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t

SEVEN

The Law ai
Freedom: A

John C. Stophel, an attorney, is managing partner of Tennessee's largest law firm —
Stophel Caldwell and Heggie, of Chattanooga. Representative examples of Mr. Stophel's
numerous civic and professional activities include serving as president of the Greater
Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce; chairman of his city's 1977 United Fund drive,
which exceeded its goal of $3,713,000; member of the Advisory Board of the Center for
Law and Religious Freedom of the Christian Legal Society; director of Tennessee Inde-
pendent Colleges Fund; and member of Bryan's National Advisory Council. One of Chat-
tanooga's leading citizens, he is a deacon and an active member of the Brainerd Baptist
Church and is well knownforhisChristian testimony. The accompanying article was given
as an address at a Bryan alumni Christmas banquet in Chattanooga in December.

As we read the beautiful Christmas story from the
second chapter of Luke, wethinkof the baby Jesus in a
manger, wrapped in swaddHng clothes. We consider the
decree from Caesar Augustus that people be required to
go to their ancestral homes for the census, which
brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem at the time
when Jesus was to be born. We know that this was in
fulfillment of the prophecy in Micah 5:2 that the Mes-
siah would be bom in Bethlehem of Judaea.

But have you ever given any thought to the world
situation in which Jesus was bom as compared to the
world situation in which we live today as we celebrate
Christmas almost 2,000 years later?

Civil Authority — Rome

Greece had united the civiUzations of Asia, Europe,
and Africa and established one universal language.
Then Rome made one empire of the whole known
world, and Roman roads made all parts of the known
world accessible. Judaea at the time Christ was bom
was under the civil jurisdiction of Rome, and all civil
matters had to be handled under the laws approved by
Rome. The people did not enjoy self-government as we
enjoy it today.

Religious Rulers — The Sanhedrin

At the time Christ lived on earth, the recognized
headship of the Jewish people was the Sanhedrin. It was
composed of 70 members — mostly priests and Saddu-
cean nobles, some Pharisees, scribes and elders (tribal
or family heads), presided over by the High Priest. The
supreme concern and delight of the Pharisees was to

keep the law, including the traditions, in every exact
detail. As Jesus mentioned from time to time, the
Pharisees had lost sight of the purpose and intent of the
law because of the voluminous detail of traditions and
regulations. The Sadducees had relatively little influ-
ence among the people, but they had considerable in-
fluence with the Romans. They held to the written Law
and rejected the traditions of the Pharisees. They de-
nied the resurrection of the body. They did not believe
in the existence of angels and spirits.

It was a well-known fact that both the Pharisees and
the Sadducees maintained an inward and secret con-
tempt for their Roman rulers. Also it is a sad fact of life
that neither the civil authorities nor the religious au-
thorities were concerned about the people, the masses.
The average man on the street and in the synagogue had
no voice in his government, civil or religious. Those in
authority spoke down to him, and he listened.

World Situation Today

It is interesting to take a look at the world situation
today in contrast with the situation at the time of Jesus'
birth on earth. In the first place, the nation of Israel now
owns and controls the land where Jesus was born and
lived on earth. When Israel became a state on May 14,
1948, the entire political situation in that part of the
world was changed. The people now have a voice in
government. They elect their leaders. Their representa-
tives make the laws. Although the Dome of the Rock, a
Moslem place of worship, sits on the site of the Great
Temple in Jerusalem, the Jewish people are free to

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Religious
srspective

by John C. Stophel

worship in their synagogues or not to worship, as they
choose. Unfortunately, recent surveys have shown that
a relatively small percentage of the people have any
faith in God and only a small percentage regularly wor-
ship God in any way. But they have freedom of wor-
ship.

The known world has greatly expanded. We now
know the facts not only about all the peoples of the
planet Earth on which we live, but much also about
other planets in the universe.

Our store of knowledge surpasses by far that of any
prior generation. At least our knowledge of facts is
greater; there is some question about our ability to cope
with life.

Situation in the United States of America

We have looked at the world at the time of Christ and
at the present time, and we have looked at the land
where Jesus lived on earth in Bible times as compared
with today. Now, let's consider the situation in the
United States, where you and I live.

Civil Law

In our representative form of government, we have
rights which the people living in Judaea in the days of
Jesus did not have. We have the right to elect our local,
state, and national representatives who enact the laws
under which we live . Unfortunately , not all our citizens
recognize the importance of these rights. Many of our
rights as citizens are being taken away because of our
neglect. A small, vocal minority is influencing many of

the laws and the administration of the laws in our coun-
try. Although only a very small portion of the working
people in our country belong to labor unions, the heads
of the national labor unions exercise a very great power,
much of which is not used wisely in bringing about laws
and regulations, not to mention enforcement of laws.
Some of the women who speak for so-called women's
rights are having great influence, although they do not
speak for a majority of the women in our country.
Minority groups of one type and another are speaking
out and being heard, the influence exercised being far
beyond that which ought to be accorded to any minority
group. But we who are in the majority also have our
rights — if we will exercise them.

Freedom of Religion

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution pro-
vides as follows:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establish-
ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of griev-
ances.

The Supreme Court later held that the Fourteenth
Amendment has the effect of applying the First
Amendment to laws made by any other governmental
body as well as Congress; so at present no governmen-
tal institution has the right to make any laws respecting
an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exer-
cise of religion.

Exercising Religious Rights Under Civil Law

To some extent, there is a natural point of conflict
between the religious law and the civil law. It was true
in Jesus' day. You will recall that the Sanhedrin wanted
to put Jesus to death, but He had to be taken before the
Roman civil authority in order to be put to death legally.
Today, we have freedom of worship, but the rules and
regulations under which our churches and Christian
schools must operate are set by the civil authority. One
of the greatest tools being used by the government
today in regulating the exercise of religion involves
tax-exempt status and the control of the deductibility of
charitable contributions for U.S. income tax purposes.
The freedom of religion is being hampered also by at-
tempts to stop the Christian school movement by re-
quiring children to go to public elementary schools.

Examples of Government Interference
in the Exercise of Religion

You may be interested in a few examples of gov-
ernmental interference in the exercise of religion
today — in our country.

1. Bruce Johnson vs. Huntington Beach Union High
School District. In Huntington Beach, California, a
group of high-school students requested permission to
have a voluntary student Bible-study club to meet and
conduct its activities on the public high-school campus
during the regular school days. The students asked to be
recognized as an official club, asked for the right to use

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school classrooms and other space during the school
day for club meetings as did other clubs , the right to use
bulletin boards and similar facilities for the posting of
club activities, and to have access to the school news-
paper for publication of club events. The request from
the students was denied by the principal, by the school
board, by the Superior Court, and finally by the Court
of Appeals of California.

In this case the lawyers for the students wanting to
form the Bible club cited many quotations from opin-
ions of the U.S. Supreme Court which indicate that
government should be neutral toward religion and not
opposed to it. In many parts of the United States today
decisions are being made similar to the one made at
Huntington Beach High School in California. A petition
was filed before the Supreme Court of the United States
for the October term of 1977, but the court denied the
pefition for writ of certiorari.

2. State of Ohio vs. Rev. Levi Whisner, et al. In the
case of Rev. Levi Whisner in the state of Ohio, the
defendants were parents of school children who were
being sent to a private Christian school. They were
charged with sending their children to a school not
approved by the state of Ohio. State approval required
compliance with certain "minimum standards." Each
of the defendants had convictions that a school comply-
ing with the humanistic "minimum standards" would
be Christian in name only. There was no question about
the academic achievement of the Christian school: for
example, S.A.T. (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores
were significantly higher than for peers in public
schools. The school's position: Compliance with
"minimum standards" violates religious convictions
upon which the school was founded. Question: God
control or state control? Prosecutor's position: Free-
dom to believe religiously is absolute, but the freedom to
act is not — the state can tell a person how he must act in
carrying out his religious beliefs. Decision: On July 28,
1976, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled unanimously in
favor of the defendants, saying, "We must conclude
that the compendium of 'minimum standards' promul-
gated by the State Board of Education, taken as a
whole, unduly burdens the free exercise of religion."
But you will be interested to know that the trial court
and the court of appeals both ruled for the state. Only
the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled for the defendants.

Integration

Internal Revenue Service, the Veterans Administra-
tion, and the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare have taken a very strong position that for a
Christian school to open its doors to those who qualify
under its standards is not sufficient. These agencies
take the position that the number of minority faculty
members and students in the school must conform to
the percentages living in the area served by the school.
Enforcement of this position has been spotty to date,
but if the enforcement of these rules and regulations on
the schools to which they are applicable is successful,
no one knows where the government will go from there.

If you think I am overstating the case, then you
should read an article entitled "Religion in the Class-

room" by James Kilpatrick, which appeared in the
Chattanooga Times on December 2, 1977. Mr. Kilpat-
rick discusses a provocative essay just published by the
Institute for Humane Studies. William B. Ball, a con-
stitutional lawyer practicing in Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
vania, wrote the essay, dealing with four constitutional
aspects of religion in America today. He is concerned
with compulsory attendance laws, with state control of
private schools, with certain application of tax funds,
and with rights of conscience in public education. Mr.
Ball poses an interesting proposition. He wonders
whether the education establishment — the mystic
amalgam of educationists, school administrators, fed-
eral bureaucrats, and textbook publishers — has im-
posed upon the classrooms a body of thought that is
constitutionally indistinguishable from an "establish-
ment of religion."

Mr. Ball, quoted by Mr. Kilpatrick, states that he
believes that it is possible, "not only theoretically, but
practically, to offer proof of the establishment of secu-
lar humanism in given public schools," and he per-
ceives, "the problem of rights of conscience in the
public schools as being broader than the scope of secu-
lar humanism. There are many practices in public
schools that are offensive, not because they are identi-
fiable as part of a secular humanist program, but be-
cause they directly offend beliefs and attitudes of given
children and parents."

The secular humanism approach of the public schools
in some parts of the country is directly opposed to the
religious beliefs you and I share. To give an example,
we are reaching the point where the true meaning of
Christmas is being barred from many public schools,
and only secular songs with no mention of Jesus Christ
may be mentioned at Christmas.

Conclusion

We could give many other illustrations of problems
facing Christians in our country. But at this Christmas
season it seems appropriate to conclude with the illus-
tration about the current newspaper articles regarding
the religious significance of Christmas being removed
from the public school classrooms. This is a substantial
move toward doing away with the belief in God, which
our forefathers accepted in the estabhshment of our
great country.

We rejoice at this Christmas season. It is a time of
appreciation of the birth of Jesus Christ and the fact that
we can celebrate it almost 2,000 years after the fact.
Christmas is a time of great happiness, but it is also a
time for us to think of the great country in which we
live — of the freedoms we enjoy — and a time to be alert
that we do our part so that we can continue to enjoy
those freedoms and have our children enjoy those free-
doms in the years to come.

It is our desire, our hope, our belief that if we are alert
and if we do our part — and if Jesus delays his second
coming — our children and grandchildren will be able to
continue to sing Christmas carols that tell with great joy
of the birth of Jesus — in the schoolroom, wherever they
choose. May God help us to do our part to preserve
those freedoms!

TEN

BRYAN LIFE

X he doctor reported that our
baby, Daniel, had received "ail the
antibiotics his body can handle."
Then the doctor added, "What he
needs now is prayer." Lucia and I
were stunned.

What does it mean? What is he
really saying? Is this the "gradual"
approach that was used the last time
when our little Mickey, aged 4, died
during a "minor" operation?

These are some of the thoughts
that rested in our minds for a mo-
ment and then were pushed away by
others equally frustrating.

What if Daniel dies? How will our
other children be affected? Will
Karen become bitter because of our
move? How will Tim react? How
good are these doctors? What kind
of man is this pediatrician, whom
we have met only once? What are
we doing hundreds of miles from
home, specialists, resources,
friends?

These are the shadows that
obscured our vision in the early
morning hours when a catastrophe
appeared.

As a family we had accepted the
position at Bryan as the Lord's call
and felt "prepared" for some of the
anticipated adjustments. Karen in
high school had been a real blessing.
Timothy had accepted his new life,
learning the "new language" as it
was spoken by his first-grade as-

Malcolm I. Fary moved with his family in
August from New Jersey, where he was
principal of Brookside School in Mend-
ham Township, N.J. Assistant professor of
education at Bryan, he holds the B.A. from
Barrington College, the M.S. from East
Stroudsburg State College, and is a doc-
toral candidate at Rutgers University.

WHAT

IF OUR

BABY DIES?

by Malcolm I. Fary

sociates. The church was a real joy.
Everything was pleasant. Had we
really responded to a call?

Serious moments have such
casual beginnings. In Daniel's case
there was a sore eye, which the doc-
tor suggested could be due to a piece
of dirt or a scratch. Ophthalmic
ointment was prescribed, and the
afternoon continued. At dinner the
eye was worse; we went back to the
doctor. After consulting with
another physician, we were sent off
to speciahsts in the T. C. Thompson
Children's Hospital in Chattanoo-
ga.

In the early morning hours the
diagnosis of orbital cellulitis was
confirmed. The pediatrician indi-
cated that our baby was gravely ill
and there was a very real danger of
spinal meningitis.

Questions flooded our minds.
Where did this infection come
from? Would it have happened if we
had remained in New Jersey? Am I
a responsible father subjecting my
family to — ?

It is hard to think and pray when
you are reacting to a small body
taped to a mattress, to a small swol-
len face looking at you with one
trusting eye.

In the next few hours Daniel's
condition stabilized. We were very
thankful, praising the Lord for both
the antibiotics and a wonderful
pediatrician. At this point we
learned how wonderful things were.
First our doctor pointed out that the
medicine had not been the cause of
our baby's stabilized condition! It
seems that antibiotics, wonderful as
they are, require time to become ef-
fective. Daniel had not had the time

necessary for the medicine to help;
our Lord had answered prayer.

The second wonder was that our
doctor was a brother in Christ!
What a joyous celebration of hearts
as we together rejoiced in our
Lord's provision!

The crisis appeared to be past,
but now followed two long weeks of
twenty - four - hour - a - day parental
supervision, required by hospital
regulations, since Daniel could not
be placed with other children. For-
tunately, our Father provides all
that is needed for our trials and also
does not always allow us to know
what really is ahead.

Mother and father shared the
nursing duties — mother by day, dad
by night: days were alternated on
weekends. Mother had breakfast
with the family at home; Dad took
care of early evening with school
work, stories, etc. Our daughter did
the cooking and mothering; my
mother-in-law was with us and not
well; we kept trying to complete one
day at a time.

Were we alone? No, not for a
moment! The first few hours were
lonely, but first our Lord provided
one of His own as the physician and
then the marvelous prayer support
of the Bryan family — students,
classes, faculty, and our church!
Christians we did not know brought
meals and gave guidance and sup-
port for our children. The list here is
partial, but the assistance was com-
plete.

Some months earlier it was our
conviction that Bryan was the place
where our Lord would have us
serve. At that time we were rather
careful in examining the elements of
such a decision. It was during this
period that Jeremiah 29: 1 1 seemed
to be significant for us. As I write
this testimony, the next few verses
are precious too!

For I know the plans that I have
for you, declares the Lord, plans for
welfare and not for calamity, to give
you a future and a hope.

Then will you call upon Me and
come and pray to Me, and I will
listen to you.

And you will seek Me and find Me ,
when you search for Me with all your
heart.

Jeremiah 29:11-13

SPRING 1978

ELEVEN

VAIM LIFE

BRYAIM LIF

lAMPUS
REVIEW

MELVIN M. SEGUINE AWARD

An annual award has been en-
dowed by an anonymous donor in
honor of Rev. Melvin M. Seguine,
who is well known to many in the
college constituency.

Mr. Seguine, who is retired and
living in Dayton, served for a year
as pastor of the former Cumberland
Presbyterian Church (now Grace
Bible Church) of Dayton and con-
tinues his fellowship as an elder in
the same church. For over six years
before coming to Dayton, Mr.
Seguine and his wife, Frances, who
died in January, 1976, were as-
sociated with Appalachian Bible In-
stitute in Bradley, W. Va. Prior to
that he held pastorates of several
Bible churches in Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa, Ilhnois, and In-
diana; and for three years he was
editor of Voice, the official organ of
the Independent Fundamental
Churches of America (IFCA), with
headquarters in Wheaton, 111.

The Seguines' daughter, Virginia,
graduated at Bryan in 1954 and
served as head librarian at her Alma
Mater from 1964 until 1976, when
she became associated with the
Campbell-Reese Evangelistic As-
sociation of Willowdale, Ontario,
Canada.

The annual award of $500 will be

given to "a graduating male student
who has completed at least two
years of his undergraduate studies
at Bryan College and who plans, in
the will of God, to continue in
graduate studies that will culminate
in missionary or pastoral service for
the Lord. He shall be a person who
has demonstrated a love for and
commitment to the Bible as the
Word of God and who has been
visibly active in the spiritual ac-
tivities of the Bryan College student
body."

Editor's Note: Any friends or admirers of
Mr. Seguine who would lilie to contribute to
tliis special endowment are invited to do so. If
sufficient contributions are received, it may be
possible to make two awards each year instead
of one.

TRUSTEE BOARD ADDS
NEW AREA MEMBER

Melvin M. Seguine

John E. Steffner, president of
Chattanooga Armature Works,
Inc., was recently elected to serve
on the Bryan board of trustees.

Mr. Steffner attended Chat-
tanooga public schools and trained
in engineering at the University
of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is
an active member of St. Andrews
United Methodist Church and Chat-
tanooga District Board of Laity; he
is past Holston Conference lay
leader of the United Methodist
Church. Other organizations which
have gained his interest and support
are the Christian Business Men's
Committee, Big Brothers-Big Sis-
ters of Chattanooga (president of
board 1973-75), Board of Contact of
Chattanooga (current president).
Downtown Optimist Club (presi-
dent 1975-76), Prayer Breakfast
Armed Forces Week Celebration
(co-chairman), and WMBW radio
station (member of advisory board).

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CHEMISTRY LAB ACQUIRES
AUTOMATIC ALL-GLASS STILL

Dr. Merlin Grieser, assistant pro-
fessor of chemistry at Bryan, is
shown with the new Corning
Mega-Pare automatic all-glass still
recently acquired by the division of
natural sciences. The new ap-
paratus delivers six liters of distilled
liquid per hour and replaces its
predecessor still which had served
in the chemistry laboratory for more
than thirty years. The still is used to
produce distilled water for the
chemistry and biology classes and
for the offset press in the printing
department.

Dr. Merlin Grieser

CONCERT ARTIST HOLDS
SPECIAL FACULTY POSITION

Bene Hammel, organist and con-
cert artist of Chattanooga, Tenn., is
special instructor in organ at Bryan
this year. He comes to the campus
twice each month to play at the
chapel service and to give organ in-
struction to advanced music stu-
dents. A highlight of the first semes-
ter was the Christmas organ concert

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Bene Hammel

on December 9 before a large audi-
ence of students, faculty, and area
friends.

Mr. Hammel began his recital
performance at the age of 16 and
appeared in concert at Bryan Col-
lege while still in high school. He
was a student of the late Carl D.
Scheibe and William Weaver and
was graduated from the University
of Chattanooga. A student of com-
position, he has had a number of his
choral works published.

While serving as a consultant to
the Baldwin Piano and Organ Com-
pany of Cincinnati, Ohio, he was
instrumental in enabling Bryan to
secure its custom-made Baldwin
Multi-waveform organ on a six
months" delivery schedule. The
multi-waveform is a new concept in
organ building, a marriage of the
traditional organ sound and console
with contemporary advances in
technology. Mr. Hammel person-
ally supervised the installation at
Bryan and demonstrated the or-
gan's potential at the baccalaureate
in May 1977.

Mr. Hammel has performed on
most of the best organs in the coun-
try and has been heard in nearly
every state in the U.S., as well as in
Canada, with over 1 ,000 concerts to
his credit. Among his most recent
performances were those at St. Pat-
rick's Cathedral and St. John the
Divine Cathedral in New York City
and the inaugural organ concert in
Cincinnati's famous Music Hall in
May 1975.

STUDENTS SPONSOR GIFT

FOR TOCCOA FALLS BIBLE

COLLEGE

The Bryan Student Senate, led by
president David Spoede, launched a
project netting $3,000 in donations
by students, faculty, and friends to
help Toccoa Falls Bible College in
recovering from the devastating
flood, which claimed 39 lives. The
Bryan community felt a special in-
terest in this sister Christian college
because of personal relationships
between many members of the two
college communities and contacts in
athletic competition. A number of
Bryan students were attending a
foreign missions conference at
nearby Lake Louise when the disas-
ter struck.

STAFF NEWS

Karin deRosset '64,
dean of women at
Bryan, received the
Master of Arts degree
in student personnel
administration on De-
deRosset cember 3 from Ten-
nessee Technological University in
Cookeville, Tenn. Miss deRosset
has served on the personnel staff
since her graduation from Bryan.

Two Bryan staff members, who
are also alumni, were married dur-
ing the Christmas season to college
classmates — Tom Varney '77, di-
rector of Practical Christian In-
volvement, to Vickey Hudson '77,
elementary teacher of Dayton,
Tenn.; Jeff Tubbs '75, assistant to
athletic director, to Mary Morgan,
of Hunts ville, Ala., a continuing
student at Bryan.

BRYAN HEARD ON 8 STATIONS

Echoes from Bryan Hill are heard
weekly in eight eastern cities of
Tennessee through radio stations
which carry a 15-minute program of
music and message as a public-
service feature. The tapes of these
programs are available for other sta-
tions that may wish to use them, and
a 5-minute program format re-
quested by a number of stations is
being developed to increase the
ministry and advertising potential
by radio.

SPORTS

Luke Germann and Carlos Vega,
two leading players on the Bryan
soccer team that won the national
championship for the third year in a

row, recently were named to the
National Christian College Athletic
Association Ail-American team.

It was the second year for Ger-
mann, a senior elementary educa-
tion majorfrom Nashville, Tenn., to
be so honored; the first for Vega, a
junior business administration
major from Dayton.

Earlier both Germann and Vega
had been named to other all-star
teams both on the district and re-
gional level.

Germann

Vega

STUDENTS ATTEND
WASHINGTON SEMINAR

Early in February four Bryan
students and their history professor
attended the Federal Seminar in
Washington, where they had an op-
portunity to observe government in
action in the nation's capital and to
develop an understanding of the re-
lationship between politics and
Christian ethics.

Representatives from Bryan were
Doug Blanton and Linda Helm,
both senior history majors, Bob
Grosser, a junior, and Carolyn
Archer, a sophomore. The students
were accompanied by Dr. Robert
Spoede, associate professor of his-
tory and social science, and Mrs.
Spoede. The group also toured the
White House and the Aero-Space
Museum.

The five-day seminar was spon-
sored by the National Association
of Evangelicals (NAE), which was
organized in 1942 and now repre-
sents thirty-five denominations in
providing a means of "cooperation
without compromise" among
Bible-believing Christians.

OPERA RETURNS TO BRYAN

Don Pasquale, a three-act opera
by Gaetano Donizetti, was pre-
sented at Bryan by the Chattanooga
Opera Association in February.
This performance, a part of COA's
caravan program bringing opera to
area towns, followed a very suc-
cessful performance a year ago of
The Barber of Seville.

SPRING 1978

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FOURTEEN

BRYAN LIFE

BRYAN INVITATIONAL PASTORS'

CONFERENCE

MAY 9-12, 1978

Tuesday Supper through Friday Breakfast

featuring

Lindsell

DR. HAROLD LINDSELL

Retiring editor, Christianity Today
Author of The Battle for the Bible

CONFERENCE TOPICS

The Battle for the Bible:

The Bible and the Foundation for the Christian Faith
The State of the Church
The Christian Mind
The Suicide of Man

SEMINAR TOPICS

Forum — questions and answers

The Local Pastor in the Battle for the Bible

The Holy Spirit's Threefold Secret

ANN CRISWELL JACKSON

A dramatic coloratura soprano from
Dallas, Texas

Ministering through music the
power and love of Jesus Christ

Mrs. Jackson

This conference is intended to be a tangible "thank
you" to pastors and churches which have shown them-
selves friends of the college and to provide an opportu-
nity for other interested pastors to become acquainted
with Bryan . The only expense to participants will be the
cost of transportation.

The program is being planned to provide experiences
of inspiration and learning in areas important to the
pastoral ministry. A variety of techniques will be used
in these activities — general sessions, seminars, discus-
sion groups, and informal fellowship.

DR. JAY ADAMS ^^''"''

Author and dean of the Institute of Pastoral Studies

of the Christian Counseling and Educational

Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Biblical Counseling Today:

Counseling and the Bible
Marriage
The Husband
Divorce

SEMINAR TOPICS

Counseling the Bereaved and Terminally 111
Counseling the Divorced
The Pastor's Home Life
Persuasive Preaching

DR. IRVING JENSEN

Professor of Bible, Bryan College;

prolific author of numerous books on the

inductive method of Bible study

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Housing in air-conditioned modern dormitories

• First-class food service

Special program for wives

Program schedule available on request

Address: PASTORS' CONFERENCE
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Dayton, TN 37321

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JULY 1 5-22,

• Adult Bible studies

DR. KARL KEEPER

Bible teacher

Dean of Education

Univ. of Tennessee-Martin

Martin, Tenn.

• Children's classes and handcraft

• Teenage emphasis on sports

• Afternoon recreationr and sightseeing

• Shopping in area outlets

(Men's and women's wear)

• Home-cooked food served

• Air-conditioned dorms

• Family fellowship

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REV. RALPH TOLIVER

Missionary speaker

Overseas Missionary Fellowship

Manila, PhDippines

REV. CHARLES WfiSTGATE

Children's speaker

Pastor, Community Bible Church

Montoursville, Pa.

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Conference musicians
Sioux Cit> , Iowa

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COVER PHOTO

The Bryan Gospel Messengers
superimposed above the Rudd
Memorial Chapel for the cover
photo is a Cunnyngham Studio
composition.

Below, the Messengers are
shown as they sang at com-
mencement, left to right, Jerry
Anderlik, Beth Reese, Darlene
Ragland, and Ron Beck. See
Campus Review for their sum-
mer itinerary.

Volume 3

SUMMER 1978

Number 4

DOCTORATE RECOGNIZES FAMILY COMMITMENT: A review
of the McKinney family Christian commitment, focusing on the hon-
orary doctorate awarded to Dr. J. Wesley McKinney.

WALKING THROUGH A NEW DOOR: The regrets and ac-
complishments of a college career woven into a personal testimony.
By James Wolfe.

THE PASTOR AS A COUNSELOR: An appeal to the pastor, who has
both the responsibility and the capability of offering spiritual counsel-
ing, not to leave it to the secular psychiatrist or psychologist. By Dr.
Jay Adams.

THE SUICIDE OF MAN: A challenge to Christians to believe God
and to act intelligently in facing society's hopelessness in the course
of self-destruction. By Dr. Harold Lindsell.

PASTORS' CONFERENCE SUMMARY: A review of the highly suc-
cessful first pastors' conference, held on Bryan campus May 9-12. 11

CAMPUS REVIEW: A potpourri of faculty and staff activities along

with student news. 12

CHRISTIANS IN GO'VERNMENT: A student's evaluation of his
experience as a participant in the Federal Seminar at Washington,
D.C. By Bob Grosser. 14

D|-rOFRI/\l_

This issue of Bryan Life features the
1978 commencement, the forty-fifth, and the
Bryan pastors' conference, a first. It was the
first year in the past twenty-two that gradua-
tion could not be held in the open under the
trees on the triangle. A general rain in beau-
tiful East Tennessee saw to it that both bac-
calaureate and graduation were held indoors
this year. Rudd Memorial Chapel, however,
providing excellent facilities for every phase
of commencement, made us grateful all over again for the friends who have
made that functional and handsome facility possible.

The pastors' conference, which came the week following commencement,
exceeded all expectations. The messages in the general sessions were sub-
stantive, the seminars stimulating and instructive, the music superb, and the
fellowship — whether in the dining room, in the meeting rooms, and in the
informal times — was heartwarming and edifying. A number of participants
said it was the best conference of its kind they had ever attended. All of that
certainly makes the planning for next year a challenge!

Theodore C. Mercer

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Lewis Llewellyn '38, senior trustee, placed the hood on Dr.
McKinney following the awarding of the honorary doctor of
laws degree with Dr. John Bartlett observing.

President Mercer presented the diploma and made the award
to Dr. McKinney.

Dr. McKinney acknowledged the honor.

Members of the McKinney family shown left to right are Dr.
and Mrs. J. Wesley McKinney, Mrs. Arthur McKinney, Ar-
thur McKinney, Mrs. Marion McKinney, and Dr. Marion
McKinney.

Doctorate Recognizes
Family Invoivement

1 he conferring of the honorary doctor of laws de-
gree on Dr. J. Wesley McKinney, of Memphis. Tenn.,
at the graduation on May I symbolized the involvement
of the McKinney family in the founding and develop-
ment of Bryan College and the distinguished service of
members of the McKinney clan to the wider Christian
community.

Dr. McKinney himself has served as a trustee of the
college since 1951, eight years — 1969-77 — as chairman;
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McKinney . were among
those eighty families and individuals entitled to be
known as founders of Bryan College; and his mother, a
well-known Bible teacher in Memphis, was an early
trustee, serving till 1950. Mr. and Mrs. McKinney had
five sons, all of whom distinguished themselves in their
chosen vocations and were known for their Christian
interests.

Dr. McKinney chose the profession of ophthalmol-
ogy and became a well-known surgeon in that field.
Another son, Marion, also chose medicine and served
as a medical missionary to Honduras for 2 1 years . turn-
ing over to the national workers in Siguatepeque a mod-
ern hospital and thriving ministry when he and his fam-
ily returned to the states in 1969. Dr. Marion McKinney
now engages in the practice of medicine in Knoxville. A
third son, Arthur, of Ocean Springs, Miss., recently
retired from a successful business career in which
Christian principles and the support of Christian enter-
prises were always in the forefront. The other two sons,
both deceased now, were ministers.

In the area of Christian service. Dr. Wesley McKin-
ney has been a Sunday school teacher for forty years,
serves as an elder in the Second Presbyterian Church of
Memphis, and is a member of the board of Mid-South
Bible Institute of Memphis and of Reformed Theologi-
cal Seminary in Jackson, Miss. He is chairman of the
board of the Christian Fellowship of Visually Impaired.

Behind all of these sons of such stalwart parents are
the wives, who share the interests of their husbands and
give them the kind of support without which they could
not have succeeded.

The symbolism of the awarding of this honorary de-
gree also speaks of the importance of the involvement
of individuals and families in Christian enterprises, of
whatever kind they are. God has chosen to work
through people, and Christian people in long-range
working together can accomplish great things. As the
Scripture says, one plants, another waters, and God
gives the increase.

SUMMER 1978

THREE

Walkinc

i\.s I look back over the time I've spent here at Bryan
College, it surprises me when I realize that my emotions
are a mixture of both happiness and regret. I had always
assumed that when I graduated from college I would be
so overjoyed that I would feel no emotion other than
elation. However, now that the time is here, I under-
stand that there were many things I wish I would have
done differently.

My primary regret concerns people. Although we all
had our own circle of friends, how often, if ever, did I
make a distinct effort to get to know someone else more
deeply? I, Hke everyone else, have those certain few
that I really know well, but I am positive that I came
nowhere near becoming really well acquainted with
those even in the Hmited confines of my graduating
class. In a goal-oriented society such as we live in, it is
easy to get caught up in the flow of performance and
leave so very little time for the development of personal
relationships.

Another regret concerns my practical day-to-day
witness and ministry that might have been much more
effective had I been more sensitive to the needs of
others. The Practical Christian Involvement organiza-
tion had many opportunities to offer, yet I took advan-
tage of only a few. A positive outgrowth of this recogni-
tion of failure, however, is that I have been challenged
to endeavor to build personal relationships in the fu-
ture. I can now see more clearly the value of getting to
know people and their problems, so that I can aid them

BRYAN LIFE

fhrough a New Door

by Jim Wolfe 78

James Wolfe was one of three seniors chosen
through a written competition to speak at graduation in
lieu of an outside speaker. A transfer student, he com-
pleted his last two years at Bryan and earned his degree
cum laude with a major in business administration. He
wonthelVaZ/SfreefJouma/ Senior Business Award. He is
already working in his hometown of Indianapolis for
Indiana National Bank in its management training pro-
gram. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wolfe and
has two brothers and two sisters. Music is his hobby;
piano accompaniment, his specialty.

more sensitively and be more of a Christian help in the
future when similar situations arise. In this way my
experience here at Bryan has truly taught me the value
of a practical Christian witness in my everyday life.

Probably the regret that is the easiest for all of us to
feel is leaving one another to go our separate ways.
During the past years there were many individuals upon
whom I could depend for strength and the warmth of an
honest smile. When I realize that all too soon those very
people whom I have grown to love will no longer be
close by, it breaks my heart. This too I realize is part of
my education. When I leave, it will be with the knowl-
edge that I have known some of the most wonderful
people I could call friends and with the hope that I have
been worthy to be called the same.

Along with these regrets, I also have the tremendous
feeling of happiness upon graduation from college.
Commencement — the very word itself connotes a he-
ginning rather than an end. The expression "Today is
the first day of the rest of your life" takes on new
meaning now because this is the beginning of a life with
boundless opportunities of service and contribution to
others.

Upon choosing Bryan College, a Christian liberal arts
institution, I was beset by questions. Why a Christian
school? Why a liberal arts education? Why not a less
expensive education in a state institution that is closer
to home? My answer was twofold to all of these. First, I
truly believed that this was where the Lord wanted me
to come to finish my college studies; and secondly, the
educational purpose of Bryan College in the catalogue
fulfilled my expectation of what a college education
should be. The Bryan statements say that educationally
the school's purpose is intended "to provide opportu-
nity for students to gain a knowledge of the Bible and

the arts and sciences and their relationships and to
encourage students to think critically, to work indepen-
dently, to communicate clearly, and to express them-
selves creatively in their search for truth."

Admittedly, there were many times when I felt that
something was irrelevant to my desired course of study
or that particular classes were somewhat too demand-
ing. In retrospect, however, I can honestly say that
none of the times I spent studying were fruitless hours
or wasted moments in my learning experience.

As a business major I have been asked many times
why I chose a relatively obscure Christian liberal arts
college instead of a leading school of business at a major
university. Since completing my course of study here, I
can see that developing communication skills and intel-
lectual stimulation are a truly invaluable asset when
setting out into the business world. In a few months, the
graduate classes I shall begin will deal specifically with
different aspects of business: but the communicative
and thought-developing skills that I have worked to
improve here will all be called on again.

As I leave Bryan, I can see that this study of the
liberal arts will be beneficial in any walk of life. Al-
though I have chosen to begin my career immediately
after I leave and further my studies in graduate school in
the evenings, the education that we have received will
be effective in full-time graduate studies both for secu-
lar or seminary studies or as a basis for entrance in the
working world for a productive contribution to life.

As I look back on my education thus far, my relief,
regret, and happiness merge into a feeling that I have
not experienced previously. My failures in the past
have become challenges for the future, and my former
achievements have become only steppingstones for
things yet to come. A Christian writer once said that
when we graduate we do not "punch out" and spend
the rest ofour lives in leisure, but ratherthat we "punch
in" and we begin to contribute to society more fully
because of the knowledge that we have attained and the
things we have learned that we can share with a needy
world. This does not limit itself to so-called full-time
Christian workers but to all who live out the will of God
in their own lives. My prayer and desire for myself and
all the graduates is that, as we step out into the world,
we may take full advantage of the situations in which we
find ourselves to use what we already know and to learn
what we still need to know.

Commencement is not an ending. Rather, it is an
achieved goal, a mixture of feelings, another beginning,
and a new variable in our lives that creates a new door to
walk through.

SUMMER 1978

FIVE

THE CASTOR A\S A

by Dr. Jay Adams

1 ou preachers have far more potential than most of
you realize. You have the Scriptures, the Word of our
living God. at your disposal for ministry and for bless-
ing. Yet time and time again ministers who have God's
power available turn aside, close their Bibles, put them
into the desk drawer, and dish out Freud, Rogers, Skin-
ner, Janov, Harris, Jung, and Adler to hungry,
careworn sheep. That is a tragedy. I'm not talking about
the liberal churches alone (we might expect that from
them); but the tragedy is that in conservative churches,
where the Bible is declared to be the inspired, inerrant,
authoritative Word of God, this sort of thing has been
taking place.

I am here to encourage pastors and Christian workers
who believe the Book to use it for the purpose for which
it was given. God gave us this Book to be a blessing to
persons who are in trouble, who have problems that will
overwhelm them — apart from the Scriptures and the
power of the Spirit. In this Book all things necessary for
life and godliness may be found. In this Book every-
thing that a pastor needs to minister to his flock is
found. All that you need to counsel persons about how
to love God with all their heart, mind, body, soul, and
strength and to love their neighbors as themselves is
here in this Book. Indeed it can be found nowhere else.

Let me present a picture of the situation today to help
you see in a new perspective and in a clearer light what
you have in the Bible.

A few years ago a psychiatrist decided to test the
validity of the work that his fellow psychiatrists were
doing. So he sent eight people into twelve of this na-
tion's leading mental institutions with one purpose — to
see if they could diagnose problems the way that they
claimed. Now these eight people were as sane as you
and I. They had no problems: but on admission, each
told one lie, 'T hallucinated." About everything else
they told the truth and acted normally: they avoided any
special behavior. That was the only lie in the picture.

Now a hallucination, of course, doesn't really tell us
anything about the person's problem. When these
people said they hallucinated, they said nothing about
the cause. How many of them do you think were
wrongly diagnosed as having serious mental illness? In
all twelve institutions, these people were declared to be
seriously mentally ill. In eleven of the twelve cases,
they were declared to have schizophrenia, the most
serious problem on the psychiatrist's list! In the other
instance, one person was declared to be a manic de-
pressive, another serious problem. That shows you
how tragic the situation is in our country today — a one
hundred percent failure in diagnosis.

Now this psychiatrist made his results known
throughout the medical world. They got into psychiatric
journals and finally to the level of the public press. Of
course , the experiment raised a great deal of flack . Then
this psychiatrist announced to one of these institutions,
"I am going to do it again." but he didn't (clever fellow
that he was). Then he checked the institution's intake
record and discovered that up until the time that he had
served notice that he was going to do it again, in the
history of the institution there had never been anything
like the number of people turned down as fakes (or
malingerers, as they call them). So going and coming,
he showed that they knew nothing about what they
were doing.

In the Saturday Review of Literature two years ago it
was stated that there are 320 different views of
psychiatry and psychology on the market shelf today. I
happen to know that there are 321!

This is the miserable state of affairs in our country
today. There is nothing but mass confusion. In just
about every other field — medicine, architecture,
aeronautics — you can find a growing consensus.
Aeronautics is a field in which there is a great deal of
consensus. For instance, you can't find rival schools of
pilots or 320 different ways of flying an airplane.

We don't have basic differences in other fields. We
fly planes, drive automobiles, we are able to get our
rockets to the moon: and we can do that because of the
growing consensus. Sure, ideas occasionally are
thrown out and new ones come in: but there is a pool of
information that grows, about which there is some basic
agreement.

Why isn't there some agreement in the counseling
field? Why is this one of the few areas in which there is
no consensus, no basic agreement at all? Indeed the
discipline keeps on splintering more and more and
more, dividing and subdividing so that you can't get
even two Skinnerians who can agree. Why is it that we
have Freudians and neo-Freudians and now neo-neo-
Freudians? Why do we have all kinds of shades and
views, all attacking one another on the basic issues?
These are not differences like those among the Baptists
and Presbyterians, the Methodists and Episcopalians,
and the rest of those who believe the Bible. We are
fundamentally agreed and by comparison have rela-
tively few differences.

The Skinnerians say that, since man is an animal, we

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BRYAN LIFE!

:OUNS£lOR

Dr. Jay Adams is a strong exponent of the centrality of the Biblical message to
all true and effective counseling. At the Bryan pastors conference this emphasis
was the thrust of his initial message, printed here with minor editing as tran-
scribed from the tape recording. Counselor, teacher, and author, Dr. Adams has
written more than thirty books and pamphlets, all of which are published by the
Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., Nutley, N.J. He is the editor-in-chief
of a new professional quarterly for ministers now in its second year. The Journal
of Pastoral Practice. The Adams family lives in Juliette, Georgia.

haven't trained him right, we ha\'en"t set up the right
contingencies in his en\ironment.

The Freudians sa\'. ""Oh. no. it's the \\a\ ue socialize
man. the kind of superego that we have built into him.
that is causing him problems. It's what his grandmother
and his Sunday school teacher in the early days did to
him."

■"Oh. no." says Rogers, ""the basic problem is not in
the en%'ironment or \\ hat other people ha\e done to him:
it is that people fail to utilize all the potential inside. The
closer I get to the core of man's being, the more I
believe that he is absolutely good to the core of his being
and that he is supplied with the answers to all his prob-
lems. You don't need the Bible. All you need is to go
inside and find that inner potential."

The run-of-the-mill psychiatrists don't know whom
to belie\e. What most of them do today is to take a piece
here and a piece there, toss them all into the pot . and stir
them together. Out comes an eclectic brew, and they
pour it out in the pan to harden: and that's what they
gi\e to people. It boils down to whatever the\' think as
indi\iduals is the right answer.

Yet w ho is an\' human being to sa\' to another human
being. ""Here is what I think is the answer to your
problem: here is the wa\' I think \ou should go"? Even
if what I think is what Freud first thought or what
Rogers thinks or what Skinner thinks or what Janov
thinks in his primal scream scheme, do I ha\e the right
(or audacit\) to say to a second human being. "This is
the answer to \our problem because I say so'"? Does
Freud know the answers to life's problems? Does Skin-
ner. Janov? Do they really have the answers?

Who know s what a man should look like? Does Skin-
ner know what a human being should look like? Does B.
F. Skinner look like that human being? Does he even
have in his mind the concept of what a human being
ought to look like? Of course. I don't believe he can do it
anywa\'. He treats man as if he were an animal. Now
man is more than an animal. Man was created in the
image of the li\ ing God b\' the hand of God himself. But
here is man. created in the image of the living God: and
Skinner knows what that image is like, all by himself?

Or Rogers sa\s. ""Man knows himself v\hat the image
is like down inside: so I'll let him reflect God's image to
himself." Who is a man to say to another man. ""I know
what you should look like, and I am going to mold you
and change you into that image which I think you ought
to bear"? What man has the audacity to do that to
another? And \ et thousands of people around the world
today are doing counseling when they don't even know
what a human being ought to look like.

What is counseling? The only thing that all these
divergent groups agree upon is that it is changing human
beings in some way or other. A fellow comes in, needing
to be changed. The problem is that the psychiatrists
disagree upon how to change him and what he ought to
look like. Into what should he be changed? "There is no
standard. Therein lies the whole problem. The answer
is that there is never going to be harmony in this field
v\ hen the one Book that could have brought it is thrown
out. In our society, so long as we have any freedom at
all. we are never going to get harmony, because the only
way we can find out w hat a man really ought to look like
is by looking at Jesus Christ.

Now. pastor, you know what a man should look like.
You know this Book. You know that he should look like
Christ. Not only that, you know what is the basic thing
that must happen to him to begin to make him look like
Jesus Christ: he needs to be saved. And you know
beyond that that it is the Holy Spirit, who. using this
Book, shapes and changes and molds that man accord-
ing to the principles, ideals, and the picture given in this
Book. A man ought to live like the commandments of
God and like the living Embodiment of them — Jesus
Christ, who kept all of them.

In the midst of this confusion, in which we find one
psychiatrist e.xcommunicating another, no agreement
reached on any basic ideas, more and more schools
proliferating day after day without any consensus what-
soever, it is time for the pastor to step forward and say.
""I've had it with this confusion. The reason that there is
no consensus in this field is that the one Book that was
intended to bring harmony has been ignored. I am going
to bring that Book back into human lives wherever I
can."

Listen, the only place that you are going to find out
how a person should live is in the Bible. This Book was
intended to communicate two things — how to love God
and how to love one's neighbors. That is where ninety
percent of the counseling problems lie.

I would like to close our discussion by looking at II
Timothy 3. I like the way that God incidentally men-
tions inspiration in the Scriptures because that gives it
all the more power and force. Paul didn't have to e.\-
plain what inspiration was aU about: he simply alluded to
it. That means that he and Timothy both taught it: both
understood it. and both accepted it. It was a presupposi-
tion on which Paul could base other statements. And he
says in verse 15. in contrast to those who were going
astray in times of trouble. ""You must continue in these
things that you learned and were convinced of. knowing
(Continued on page 14)

SUMMER 1978

SEVEN

Dr. Adams (left) and Dr. Lindsell in a farewell handshake at the
close of Bryan's first pastors' conference

iVlodern man is committing suicide in numerous
ways. Man committed suicide on one other occasion
during his long history. The Old Testament tells us that
it happened in the days of Noah. One of the interesting
aspects of his suicidal quest is this: that even as men
were in the process of doing it, they were not aware that
the deluge was almost upon them. The New Testament
says that in the closing days of this age, it shall be even
as it was in the days of Noah. Men shall be marrying,
giving in marriage, and conducting the ordinary, com-
monplace affairs of life. They will be right on the brink
of catastrophe without having any awareness of what is
happening to them.

The ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii testify to the
suddenness with which catastrophe can fall. That city
was utterly and completely destroyed by an eruption of
Mt. Vesuvius that came upon people very suddenly
when they were not expecting it. The whole top of that
mountain blew up, and Pompeii was completely oblit-
erated. The volcano deluged the whole city and buried it
beneath the volcanic ash. Archaeologists have been
digging up Pompeii and Herculaneum, and they have
found the remains of people who were caught at that
moment in the normal activities of life.

C. S. Lewis wrote a book entitled The Abolition of
Man . In that little book he is saying in one way the same
kind of thing that will be suggested here.

There are two ways in which men can commit
suicide. It can happen either from the vantage point of
natural revelation or common grace, or from the
perspective of special revelation or the special grace of
God. Concerning the former, history has witnessed the
rise and prosperity of cultures that by no means could
be called Christian cultures. They did not know
Jehovah; and this, of course, was before the advent of
Jesus Christ. While these cultures were not in any sense

Judaic, nevertheless they rose to positions of power and
eminence; and they did it under the common grace of
God — namely, they had concern for the natural revela-
tion of God. And that revelation of God in nature is
accompanied by natural law. It is possible for nations
that are not Christian to follow the natural laws of God.
And if they follow the natural laws of God, they will
reap as they have sown. But today men are not follow-
ing the laws of God in nature, and so they are commit-
ting that form of suicide.

Then, secondly, there are people who are committing
spiritual suicide, which means that they are in disobedi-
ence to the supernatural revelation of God. They are
cutting themselves off from God the Creator as revealed
in the Bible. As such they are committing not simply
physical suicide, but spiritual or transcendental suicide.

Even those of us who are evangelical and who take
the Bible very seriously are consciously or uncon-
sciously part and parcel of the same problem; we also
contribute to the approaching suicide of man.

How then can it be said that man is committing
suicide?

The first way in which man is committing suicide is
ecological. This planet Earth is being polluted. This is
true of the atmosphere, which suffers from the smog
that is found in every city around the world. It is true of
the rivers and the lakes and the oceans, whose marine
life is being destroyed. They are being so polluted that
they will become dead waters in the not-too-distant
future. We must also note the radiation which has per-
meated the atmosphere above us and contaminated the
earth in a way that indeed is dangerous. And we must
also think of the destruction of the balance of nature. By
the use of pesticides like DDT, insect life and plant life
and animal life have been hurt, and all of nature is in a
state of disbalance. We have reached a place where the
air that we breathe, the water that we drink, and the
food that we eat are not safe to us.

Secondly, man is in the process of committing scien-
tific suicide. One of the great explosions that have taken
place has been the knowledge explosion. And indeed
man has himself learned amazing things in the course of
the last century. Scientific learning and advancement
have been dramatic. It has not brought with it peace and
security, however. All of our learning has brought with
it only peril and fear. And in the area of the scientific,
we have reached a place where the potential for interna-
tional suicide is a dominant motif. The net effect of
scientific advance has been overkill. Today we have
nuclear weaponry, the potential of which is so vast that
man can decide whether or not all life shall be wiped out
on this planet Earth. Indeed we are in the process of
developing a neutron bomb. And to show how complex
this development is, it is a bomb which will be safe for
property but not for humanity. It will kill people but will
not destroy the buildings in which they shall be slain.
The terrifying power of our weaponry is such that its
delivery by aircraft and intercontinental ballistic mis-

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by Harold Lindsell

Dr. Harold Lindsell, editor, author, and former teacher, deals
with the most somber of topics In The Suicide of Man," which
was the closing message of the Bryan pastors' conference.
Printed here in abbreviated form, this realistic message merits
thoughtful consideration. He sets forth vividly the depths to
which man is sinking because "God is not in all his thoughts"; but
he also sets forth the truth of Gods sovereignty in human history
and the ultimate triumph in Christ's return. Now that he is retiring
from the editorship of Christianity Today. Dr. Lindsell indicated
that he has plans to write four books. His most recent volume, The
Battle for the Bible, has provoked wide discussion and response
within the evangelical community.

siles with warheads is beyond the imagination of man.
We have chemicals, both liquid and gaseous, that are so
noxious that if one drop were put on human skin, the
individual would be dead inside of three hours.

We have the potential for germ warfare — a vast array
of chemical and biological agents of destruction in the
arsenals of all the great powers. Within the last few
years some have raised the question about the United
States" possession of these instruments of destruction.
Our people in the CIA were supposed to destroy them:
whether that has been done is not known. But we can be
sure that there are other nations who have germ poten-
tial equal to or exceeding that which the United States
had or has today.

We also have made tremendous advances in biology.
In eugenics, in the unraveling of the genetic code, there
is something that is called cloning. By cloning one can
take tissue from a plant or animal, and from that tissue
he can reproduce that individual with exactitude. We
can take one persoa today and can manufacture one
hundred people like him. Now we will be able to create
a superman — a scientific monster with brain power,
physical strength, and beauty, but with the moral stat-
ure of an idiot.

We are also in the process of committing medical
suicide. We must not underestimate the positive ben-
efits of medicine. We have discovered penicillin, and
penicillin has dramatically advanced man"s ability to
conquer very serious diseases. But we quickly have
discovered the limitations even of penicillin, because
the germs that penicillin could kill have quickly become
resistant to its powers. There are now forms of
gonorrhea that penicillin cannot touch. The germs of
gonorrhea have become so resistant and so powerful
that no amount of penicillin will conquer it. So it is with
all of our medical advances. As long as there is not a
dramatic transformation in the ethical and mora! stan-
dards and conduct of people, all the advances of
medicine always have a "terminus ad quem"" in which
their value is destroyed because of man.

But we have all kinds of medicine. We live in a world
of pill therapy. We have pain pills, sleeping pills, birth
control pills, and energy pills. We have pills to stunt
growth and pills to produce growth. We have hormones
for sexual potency and pills to control conduct. We
have heart transplants and kidney transplants and the

transplanting of artificial organs. We also have power-
ful drugs like LSD, pep pills, marijuana, and heroin. But
in the midst of all the magnificent medical advances,
mankind is not using these things simply for good but
also for evil. We extend life, but we give no good pur-
pose for its extension, nor have we made it desirable
that life should be so extended.

Perhaps the most advanced social democracy in the
world is Sweden. There one is taken care of from the
womb to the tomb. They have everything at least from a
humanistic viewpoint. And yet in this paradise there
has been in recent years an alarming increase of juvenile
crime, widespread alcoholism, drug addiction, the
suicide rate, homosexuality, prostitution, exhi-
bitionism, incest, and murder. At a time when church
attendance lags and not more than five percent of the
people of Sweden are in any church on any Sunday
morning, and where today eighty-three percent of the
Swedish people say that they do not believe that there is
a life after death — this is paradise! Not paradise re-
gained, but paradise on the threshold of extinction,
paradise on the threshold of decimation. It is a paradise
of men who shall be overtaken at last by catastrophe
and will commit suicide.

Moreover, we face the threat of military suicide. The
armaments of the world today are more vast in number
than has ever been true before in the history of man-
kind. The military forces today have instruments of
destruction so powerful that two or three bombs would
be the equivalent of all the bombs we dropped in World
War II. On every hand there is armed conflict. In every
region of the world today, nadons face other hostile
nations with armaments piling up in their arsenals. To
the north of Communist China are troops of the Soviet
Union posed for war. Taiwan is waidng to get back to
mainland China, and mainland China is waiting to de-
stroy Taiwan. North Korea is proclaiming day after day
that it intends to conquer South Korea and reinstitute
one Korea. Germany is split in two — the old Germany
and the new Marxist Germany. Behind the Iron Curtain
in Europe, Czechoslavakia and Hungary lie under the
eye and heel of the Russian dictatorship, waiting for
that moment when they can be delivered and once again
secure their freedom. In South Africa black men are
waiting for their freedom from the white man. Rhodesia
has the same problem. In Latin America, governments
are overturned and are changing so rapidly that it is hard
to remember the fact that every year two or three
changes in nadons occur. In the United States we fear
the Soviet Union. We know we cannot trust them, and
they are sure they cannot trust us. Once again, there
will be that which Scripture has prophesied: wars and
rumors of wars even unto the end of the age.

Man is also in the process of committing moral

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suicide. This moral suicide is against both the laws of
nature and the laws of God. Anyone who travels will
quickly discover that pornography is international in
scope. From Sweden to France to America, it is found
in every major city. Increased sexual "freedom" is
resulting in multiplied fornication, adultery, les-
bianism, and wife-swapping, along with rape, sodomy,
incest, pandering, prostitution, battered wives, and bat-
tered children. The movies and the legitimate theatres
are sex-oriented. They get around the abnormal and
illegitimate under the guise of freedom of expression. A
new morality prevails that is immorality under the ban-
ner of an undefined and contentless law of love similar
to the days of the Judges when every man is doing
whatever is right in his own eyes. Ministers of the
Gospel who minister even to evangelical people are
facing problems beyond imagination. The divorce
epidemic is so widespread that even among evangelical
Christians, twenty-five percent of those who marry will
be divorced. In reality it should be at least one-third, but
we are allowing for the possibility that evangelical con-
viction may moderate the statistics.

Then we are committing sociological suicide. In
California today, one out of every two marriages ends
up in divorce. There is the breakdown of the home.
Multiplied millions of children are being raised today in
a one-parent home. There is the breakdown of law and
order, in which men decide which laws they will obey.
There is increasing crime, drug addiction, and al-
coholism. There are racial clashes. There is the decay of
the cities. The rich nations are getting richer, and the
poor nations are getting poorer. Society is becoming
unglued.

We are also committing intellectual suicide. In Marx-
ism with the advance of the dialectic and the repudia-
fion of the laws of logic, in existentialism with the
supremacy of the absurd and the meaninglessness, in an
era of unreason in philosophy, the arts, theology, and
literature — anything goes and nothing is permanent or
is true forever. In the world of the mind today, there is
an increasingly vast array of available literature endors-
ing things that are diametrically opposed to everything
contained in sacred Scripture. In this age of unreason,
men are saying that even thinking does not make any
difference and that rational thought has no power and
ought not to be normative in structuring life.

We are also committing theistic suicide. Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr., who is not a believer, recently deliv-
ered a lecture to Lutherans in Philadelphia. In the
course of the lecture he said this:

The trouble with Christians today is that they
have completely repudiated all that they have in-
herited from the Reformation and as far as they
are concerned, Calvin and Luther and all the rest
of them might just as well have never lived, be-
cause they have no binding control over them and
their thought patterns have been completely di-
vorced from their inheritance.
He says that they talk about God; but as far as God's
actual operation within the framework of life or their
world and life view is concerned, God might just as well
be dead because He is irrelevant.

At the heart of our dilemma in the field of theology

today lies the concept of the autonomy of man, the
individual subject to no power outside himself, an
anarchist who is a law unto himself, the creator of his
own absolutes, the judge and jury over his own life.

This is the world which we face. From the Christian
perspective we need to see the situation realistically.
The real revolution is not a revolution of man against
man. The real revolution is not a revolution that has to
do particularly with sociological or theological or other
matters. It is a battle between God and Satan, between
light and darkness. It is being waged in the cosmos and
on the Earth. It is in the seen and the unseen world.
What we see is not the totality of reality. There is more
to life than we see, but the seal of death is on this planet
Earth. The Apostle Peter says the heavens will pass
away, the elements will be dissolved with fire, the Earth
will be burned up. Yes, the mark of death is on the
planet. It is committing suicide. Nothing can save it. It
must die before it can live again. The judgment has
already been pronounced.

But the new is to be found within the old. There is
something we call the Kingdom of God. That Kingdom
of God has come and is coming. That Kingdom of God
shall at last be triumphant! The moment will come when
Jesus shall appear, and before Him shall bow all the
kings and kingdoms of this world. And all these king-
doms shall become His kingdom, and that Kingdom
shall be delivered to His Father. While we wait for that
culminafion, God is calhng out a people for His name.
Judgment is delayed, and the door of the ark is open
until the fullness of time or the second advent comes.
The hour is late, but it is not too late. Men still are
invited to come to Jesus Christ and find in Him the gift
of everlasting life.

There is a Kingdom, and it cannot be shaken. Its
foundation has for its builder and maker God himself. It
is a Kingdom which shall prevail against all the king-
doms of this earth.

In the midst of this kind of world, we have been called
to be God's people. We have been called to speak forth
our testimony to all men everywhere concerning His
saving grace. We are not to be like the Laodicean
church which was lukewarm, a church that was not
what it thought it was. It thought everything was going
smoothly and that the church was vital and alive, when
actually it was deadl In a description of the closing days
of the age, the Apostle Paul tells us that men shall be
lovers of self and lovers of money and proud and arro-
gant and abusive and disobedient, ungrateful, unholy,
inhuman, implacable, slanderous, profligates, fierce,
haters of good (2 Tim. 3: 1-3). This is what the world is
today!

In that day Jesus says that among the people who
profess His name the love of many will wax cold. Now,
one cannot get cold if he has not been hot. We are told
that we should occupy fill He comes. We must warn
men everywhere to flee from the wrath to come, be-
cause we know that in Jesus Christ we have received
the gift of everlasting life. And it is the desire of our
hearts to share with them the promise of God and to
make known to them the truth of the words of Jesus, "I
am come that men might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly."

TEN

BRYAN LIFE

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Registration for the first Bryan pastors" conference
represented twenty-one states and one province of
Canada. Participants came from as far away as Col-
orado and New Brunswick. All together some 300 per-
sons participated in the conference with 150 of these
being full time, not including members of the college
community. Out-of-town guests were accommodated
in the college dormitories, and meals were provided in
the college dining room.

Dr. Harold Lindsell and Dr. Jay Adams each spoke
four times at genera! sessions and led four seminars
each. Dr. Lindsell" s general topics were "The Bible the
Foundation for the Christian Faith."" "The State of the
Church," "The Christian Mind,"" and "The Suicide of
Man." Dr. Adams's topics were "Counseling and the
Bible,"" "Marriage,"" "The Husband."" and "Divorce.""

The four seminars led by Dr. Lindsell were (1)
"Forum — Questions and Answers on the Battle for the
Bible,"" with special emphasis on the responsibilities
and resources of the local pastor; (2) "Publishing in
Today"s Christian Market""; (3) "The Holy Spirit"s
Threefold Secretin Your Life and Mine""; and (4) "Bib-
lical Ethics.""

The four seminars led by Dr. Adams were "Crisis
Counseling — the Divorced, the Bereaved, and the
Terminally 111"" (given twice); (2) "The Pastor's Home
Life""; and (3) "Persuasive Preaching.""

In addition, four Bryan faculty also led seminars: Dr.
Irving L. Jensen, professor of Bible, on "Personal Bible
Study: The Analytical Method,"" a demonstration of the
inductive method of Bible study; Dr. William Ketcher-
sid and Dr. Robert Spoede, professors of history, on
"What Motivated Martin Luther?"" with reasons for
Martin Luther" s break with the Roman Church in the

Fellowship in college dining room

period 1517-1521; and Professor Malcolm Fary, of the
education department, on "Factors to Be Considered in
the Development of a Christian Day School Program.""

The wives, who made up about a fourth of the par-
ticipants, conducted one sharing seminar of their own.

Music for the occasion included an organ concert by
Chattanooga concert artist and Bryan faculty member.
Bene Hammel, and two vocal concerts by Anne Cris-
well Jackson of Dallas, Texas, accompanied by Dr.
Jack Jones of West Palm Beach, Florida.

Though focusing on the pastoral ministry, the confer-
ence proved a rich feast for all who attended any part of
it.

SUMMER 1978

ELEVEN

CAMPUS
REVIEW

FACULTY NOTES

Dr. Irving L. Jensen, professor of
Bible, is tine author oi Jensen s Sur-
vey of the Old Testament, just released
in May by Moody Press. Tliis latest
work by Dr. Jensen, who is well-
known for his Bible self-study
guides, opens up the Old Testament
as a unified whole to the serious
reader. Replete with maps and
charts, the survey guide is designed
to motivate the reader to discover
new truths on his own.

Written in Dr. Jensen's usual pre-
cise, clear, and understandable
style, the book is cloth bound, 488
pages, and may be purchased from
most Christian book stores as well
as from the Bryan College
Bookstore.

W. Gary Phillips, instructor in
Greek and Bible, was selected
Teacher of the Year by the student
body and was presented a plaque in
token of the honor. He won the
same honor two years ago.

After teaching at Bryan for three
years, Mr. Phillips, who holds the
Th.M. from Dallas Seminary, is
leaving Bryan to pursue studies to-
ward a doctorate at Grace Semi-
nary, Winona Lake, Ind.

He and his wife, Betsy"75, are the
parents of a two-year-old son,
David, and a daughter, Elizabeth
Irene, who was born May 17.

James Hughson, assistant to the
dean of students, has been named
director for the summer of the
Skymont Scout Reservation, oper-
ated by the Cherokee Area Council,
Boy Scouts of America, near Chat-
tanooga. He has been active in
scouting for 24 years and has
worked at summer scout camps for
10 years. This will be his fourth year
at Skymont, where he served as
camp commissioner and program
director.

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NEW TRUSTEE ELECTED

Mrs. Clifford Norman, Winston-
Salem, N.C., was recently elected
to the board of trustees. A widow,
Mrs. Norman, is a special agent for
the Prudential Insurance Company
and won the National Quality
Award of the National Association
of Life Underwriters in 1976 and
1977. She is chairman of the state
advisory committee for the Chil-
dren's Home Society.

TENNESSEE ACADEMY
OF SCIENCE

Two students presented papers
before the annual meeting of the col-
legiate division of the Tennessee
Academy of Science at Carson-
Newman College, Jefferson City.

Eric Clarke, Miami Springs, Fla.,
a junior majoring in chemistry, dis-
cussed "The Effects of Vitamins on
the Reproduction of White Rats."
Clarke was also selected vice presi-
dent of the division for 1978-79.

Tim Eggert, Atlanta, Ga., a sen-
ior biology major, presented his
paper on "The Preparation of Es-
ters of Polyhydroxy Compounds
and the Mono-, Di-, and Trichloro-
acetic Acids."

Also attending the meeting from
Bryan were Blaine Bishop, Con-
cord, Tenn., freshman; Mrs. Betty
Giesemann, instructor in chemis-
try; and Dr. MerHn Grieser, assis-
tant professor of chemistry.

Bryan will host the annual meet-
ing in 1979.

FIFTH ANNUAL
STUDENT ART SHOW

Twenty-nine students exhibited a
total of 132 works of art in Bryan's
fifth annual art show, under the di-
rection of Kent Juillard, assistant
professor of art. The show was open
to the public from April 16 through
May 1 in the third-floor reading
room of the administration building.
Judges were Dr. Ruth Kantzer, as-
sociate professor of English, and
Mrs. Linda Chattin, art teacher at
Rhea County High School.

Awards for entries in the paint-
ings division went to Susan Shields,
junior, Kettering, Ohio, for first
place; Teri Stewart, freshman,
Gadsden, Ala., for second; and
Rudy Wolter, junior. Marietta, Ga.,
for third. Rudy also took first place
for his sculpture.

In the ceramics division Dennis
King, senior, Baltimore, Md., took
both first and third honors, with
Judy Park, freshman, Birmingham,
Ala., earning second. Judy also re-
ceived first-place honors for her
drawing entry.

Other drawing awards went to
Lori Rostollan, special student,
Bemidji, Minn., for second place,
and to Kim Crook, freshman. Rock
Hill, S.C, for third.

In photography Beth Shreeves,
freshman, Chamblee, Ga., captured
both first- and second-place honors
and Coen Gilmore, freshman,
Titusville, Fla., took third.

Kent Juillard

TWELVE

BRYAN LIFE

Sl^LVIER >nSSIONS PROGRAM

The arms of Br\an will be reach-
ing around the w orld this summer as
seven students will be serving in as
man\ different countries as short-
term missionaries. The se\en are
members of Practical Christian In-
%ol\ement (PCI), the organization
of the college which provides stu-
dents with opportunities for Chris-
tian ser\ice.

The summer missionar\' program
gives students practical experience
on N'arious mission fields, where
their help, sometimes with menial
tasks, frees the career missionaries
for more vital ministries.

The seven and their fields of ser-
vice are John Graton. Mariposa,
Calif., working with the Na\igators
on the campus of the Uni\ersity of
Tennessee in Knoxville; Daphne
Kelh . Charlotte. N.C.. in Santa
Cruz. Boli\ia: .\nita Jaggers, Co-
lumbus. Ind.. in Seoul. Korea:
Nanc\' Aldrich. Williamsburg. Va..
in Heverlee. Belsium: Jill Heisler.

Seated left to right are Heisler. Jaggers,
Aldrich. and Kelly; standing are Ropp.
Graton. and Merrick.

Montoursville. Pa., in Bonaire.
Netherlands Antilles: Mickey Mer-
rick. Schaumburg. 111., in Barcelo-
na. Spain: and Dean Ropp. Mariet-
ta. Ga.. as sports ambassador in
Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the
Philippines.

FIRST HORTICULTURE SHOW

.Approximately 200 people visited
Bryan's first annual horticulture
show on April 13 in the third-floor
reading room.

.According to Dr. Ralph Paisley,
associate professor of biology and
chairman of the show, there were 73
entries and 32 prizes were awarded.

The sweepstakes award for ac-
cumulating the most points went to
Debbie Woodworth. a graduating
senior of Monroe Center. 111.

Winner of the horticulture excel-
lence award for the most outstand-
ing specimen in the show went
to Jim Wolfe, senior. Indianapolis.
Ind.

Diane Duckett. a sophomore
from Atlanta. Ga.. won the award
of merit for the best specimen in the
potted plant division: and Beth
Shreeves. a freshman from Cham-
blee. Ga.. took the merit award in
the hanging basket division.

SPORTS SUMMARY

Gospel Messengers' Itinerary (July-August)

Sat.. Mon.. Tues.. July 1. 3. 4
Gull Lake Bible Conference
Hickory Comers. Ml 49060

Sun.. July 2. 9:45 a.m.

Byron Center Bible Churcti
Byron Center. Ml 49315

Sun., July 2. 7:00 p.m.
Ottawa Center Chapei
Coopersville. Ml 49404

Wed.. July 5. 7:00 p.m.

Rives Baptist Church
Rives Junction. Ml 49277

Fri.. July 7, 7:00 p.m.

Howardsville Gospel Chapel
Howardsville. Ml
Sat., July 8
Sun., July 9, a.m.
South Baptist Church
Lansing. Ml

Sun.. July 9. 6:00 p.m.

Faith Baptist Church
Royal Oak, Ml 48072

Tues., July 11

Wed., July 12, 7:00 p.m.
First Baptist Churcti
Wayne. Ml 48184

Tliurs.. July 13. 7:30 p.m.

Wadhams Baptist Church
Port Huron. Ml 48060

Fri., July 14

Rrst Baptist Church
St. Clair, Ml 48079

Sat,, July 15

Pleasant Valley Baptist Church

Mansfield, OH 44903

Sun., July 16, 10:30 a.m.
Calvary Baptist Church
Bucyrus. OH 44820

Sun.. July 16. 6:00 p.m.

Grace Brethren Church
Lexington. OH 44904

Tues., July 18

Camp Hope
Canton. NC 28716

Wed.. July 19, 7:30 p,m.
Faith Bible Church
Hendersonville. NC 28739

Thurs, & Fri.. July 20. 21

Bryan Bible Conference
Dayton, TN 37321

Sat.. July 22

Sun., July 23, 11:00 a.m.
Warwick First Baptist Church
Warwick, GA 31796

Sun.. July 23. 7:00 p.m.
Vineville Presbyterian Church
Macon. GA 31204

Tues., July 25. 7:30 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church
Augusta, GA 30902

Wed., July 26

July 27
Fri., July 28-Aug. 4

Thurs.

Fri

Hickory Grove

Baptist Church Camp
Charlotte. NC 28215

Sun.. Aug. 8. 11:00 a.m.

Wayne Hills Baptist Church
Waynesboro. VA 22980

Sun., Aug. 6. 7:00 p.m.

Thoroughfare Community Chapel
Brightwood. VA 22715

Man.. Aug. 7

Cherrydale Baptist Church
Arlington. VA 22207

Tues., Aug. 8. 7:00 p.m.
Hilltop Ranch
Colora. MD 21917

Wed.. Aug. 9. 7:30 p.m.

Purcellville Baptist Church
Purcellville. VA 22132

Thurs., Aug. 10, 7:00 p.m.
Sandy Cove Bible Conf.
North East. MD 21901

Fri., Aug. 11

Sun., Aug. 13. 11:00 a.m.

Berachah Church
Cheltenham PA 19012

Sun., Aug. 13. 7:00 p.m.
Calvary Baptist Church
Bristol. PA 19007

Jerry Cline. Luke Germann. and
Sandy Stack were named Bryan
Athletes of the Year at the spring
sports banquet.

Cline. a senior basketball player
from Mansfield, Ohio, finished sec-
ond on the school's all-time scoring
list and was a second team NCCAA
All-American selection. Jerry also
was a member of the baseball team.

The all-time leading soccer scorer
in Bryan history with 101 points,
Germann shared Male Athlete of
the Year honors with Cline. The
Nashville. Tenn. . senior was named
to the NCCAA All-American team
for the second straight season in ad-
dition to many other all-star squads.

In winning the women's honor.
Sandy Stack led the team in scoring
with a 16.0 average. Only a sopho-
more. Sandy is already the leading
scorer in the history of the women's
basketball program at Bryan. A na-
tive of Hollywood. Florida, she was
named to the first team of the SCAC
all-star squad. She was also a
member of the tennis team.

Each graduating senior was pre-
sented with a ball of his sport. The
cross-country seniors were given
jerseys.

BRYAN LIFE

THIRTEEN

CHRISTIANS
IN GOVERNMENT

Bob Grosser, a junior from Pueblo, Colo., was one of three history students to
accompany Professor and Mrs. Robert Spoede to Washington, D.C., for Bryan's first
representation at the Federal Seminar, where they joined history students from some
twenty other Christian colleges. Bob is the son of alumnus Ralph Grosser '68 and
Barbara Grosser.

by Bob Grosser

v^hristians do have a place in our government! This
is what the annual Federal Seminar in Washington,
D.C., is all about. I had never been to Washington and
had always had a special desire to go there. So, in
October, 1977, when I found out about the Federal
Seminar, which was sponsored by the National Associ-
ation of Evangelicals, the thought of attending it excited
me. But this excitement cooled rapidly when I saw the
cost of the trip.

After a couple of weeks of prayer, 1 felt that the Lord
wanted me to go, and I knew that I would have to trust
in Him to provide for the expense. At that time I did not
even have the down payment necessary, but He pro-
vided that with a loan from a concerned staff person
here at Bryan.

I certainly learned about faith during the waiting time
before the seminar, which was held in early February,
1978. God chose to wait until the last minute to provide
the remaining funds for the trip. The day before the
registration deadline, I was called in and told that the
entire expense had just been covered through several
anonymous gifts! I praised God on the spot, and I was
totally assured that He wanted me to go.

The week-long seminar was a very educational, in-
spirational, and enjoyable experience. It consisted of a
series of lectures, briefings, and visits to spots of in-
terest. We heard from Christian senators, judges, and
other executives in influential positions in the govern-
ment. Of course, we visited the U.S. Capitol, the White
House, the Pentagon, the memorials, the Smithsonian
Institute, and other very interesting places.

The overall objective of the seminar was to show that
Christians should be involved in our government,
whether through just letter-writing or through holding a
position, and that they can have a real influence on
government decisions and controls. I now understand
the government better and am much more interested in
the decisions made. Our government needs prayer and
support. We should be praying in general for it and
specifically for the Christian leaders involved.

Again I want to say that the trip was very gratifying
and beneficial. I wish to thank the anonymous friends
who made it possible for me to attend. On behalf of the
others who went and myself, we thank Dr. and Mrs.
Spoede for organizing and guiding our registration pro-
cess and transportation.

THE PASTOR AS A COUNSELOR

(Continued from page 7)

from whom you learned them, that from childhood you
have known the sacred scriptures that are able to make
you wise about salvation through faith that is in Christ
Jesus." Then he says, "All scripture is inspired by
God." The Greek literally says, "God breathed out" or
■"breathed out by God." That's the idea in the word
inspiration. All the Scriptures have been breathed out by
God.

This passage is saying that, because the Bible is a
book like that, it becomes useful for four things: teach-
ing, conviction, correction, and disciplined training in
righteousness in order to make the man of God (the
pastor) adequate and to equip him fully for every good
task for which God has called him. Now I say to you.
without enlarging any further on those four words,
there is a lot in that passage. You and I have a standard:
we know what God requires. That alone is stupendous.
Nobody else knows what a human being should look
like.

We also have here the four steps of change that God
requires. We want to change people too, but the Bible is
the means that we must use to change them. That's why
it was given — to show men what God requires, where
they have failed to measure up to the requirements, how
they can get straightened out again and walk in the ways
of righteousness instead. That is a process of change,
and it is the Bible that effects that change. Everything
you need to know in order to help a person to change so
that he can begin to love God and love his neighbor is in
this Book.

How did Jesus become the Wonderful Counselor'? He
became that Wonderful Counselor by learning this
Book. What a tragedy that the early church — Paul,
Peter, and the others — didn't have Freud's insights!
How did the church ever manage without Jung and
Adler? How did Jesus do without /'w OK: You're OK?
And yet they all had something to say about changing
people's lives that was totally adequate to make a man
live in a way that pleases God.

Get out in front of the pack. I urge you from the
bottom of my heart.

FOURTEEN

BRYAN LIFE

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